A new definition for "honestly stupid."A pair of ‘grossly stupid’ Poundstretcher shop workers took a day’s takings to a casino and gambled it all on a roulette table.
Kieron Trott, 19, and his 48-year-old colleague Christopher Cameron, calmly rang their boss to tell her they had lost £3,380 after putting it all on red.
The court heard their employer initially believed it was a form of joke.
Lee Poppett, prosecuting, branded the offence ‘somewhat unusual’.
He said: ‘At 9pm she received a call from Mr Trott stating that she needed to come back to the store because they had gambled away the takings.
‘She believed it was a form of joke, but Mr Trott said “I’m not joking, call the police”.
Poundstretcher staff steal store's takings and put it all on red at casinoPut it all on red (Picture: TSUNO YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)
‘She could hear Mr Cameron in the background saying he is being honest, “you have to come back to the store”. That is, in a nutshell, the case.’
Both Trott and Cameron resigned immediately, the court heard, and are in the process of repaying the money to their former employer.
They pleaded guilty to theft by an employee when they appeared at Sunderland Magistrates’ Court.
Trott, of Washington, Sunderland, and Cameron of Hendon, Tyne and Wear, were handed 12-month community orders and were told to pay £110 each in costs and surcharges.
Trott was told to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work, while Cameron will have to do 66 hours.
The court heard the pair’s boss had left them at the Poundstretcher store, in Pallion Retail Park, in Sunderland, at the end of her shift on October 13 last year.
Ian Cassidy, defending Cameron, said, the situation was ‘almost like something out of a comedy’ and that his client had never even been to a casino before.
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