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A delivery man betrayed the trust of two companies as he stole packages three times, York Crown Court heard.
DPD employee Andrew Daniels, 60, manipulated his visits to a menswear warehouse to steal from it and his employers, said Thomas Harris, prosecuting.
Then he went back to the clothing company wearing £200 trainers he had stolen from them.
Daniels, now of the homeless hostel in Union Terrace, York, and previously living in a holiday home near Riccall, pleaded guilty to three charges of theft.
“You were in a high position of trust and responsibility,” Judge Simon Hickey told him.
“If you are entrusted, as a delivery driver, by your employer, you are not expected to steal which is exactly what you did.”
He gave him a 12-month prison sentence suspended for 18 months on condition he does six months’ drug rehabilitation.
His solicitor advocate Neal Kutte gave no mitigation after the judge said by law he had to suspend the sentence because it was for 12 months or less.
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Mr Harris said on February 21, Daniels was to deliver two iPhone 17s worth together £2,298 to Mainline Menswear in Scarborough.
When he arrived at the depot staff told him where to go on the site, but instead he went into a warehouse and stole a t-shirt, hoodie and jeans belonging to the company worth together £224.
He then delivered the rest of his load to the appropriate unit on the site, but not the iPhones, which he took away with him.
On February 25, he returned to Mainline Menswear to collect packages.
A delivery driver scanning a parcel label (Image: Danny Lawson/PA)
This time he didn’t scan four items when registering them for his company and walked off with trainers, footwear, underwear and a t-shirt worth together £482.
He went back to the depot the same evening wearing the trainers he had just stolen.
Altogether he stole goods worth a total of just over £3,000.