District Judge orders pre-sentence report in case of delivery driver convicted of stealing cash from tips jar
A delivery driver at a pizza takeaway in Cookstown was convicted at Dungannon Magistrates Court on Friday of stealing money from his workmates’ tips jar.
The 35-year-old denied stealing £8 or thereabouts in cash between March 21 and March 24 last year.
Before the court was Jason Shaw, of Millburn Park, Cookstown.
Convicting him of theft, District Judge Francis Rafferty remarked that it had been a “dishonest presentation from the defendant”.
He adjourned sentencing for a short pre-sentence report to August 28.
The owner of the takeaway told the court he became suspicious that Shaw was taking money from the tips jar and had installed a camera and marked 12 coins with fluorescent lacquer.
Shaw said he needed to exchange a note for coins for customers and told the cashier that he would use the coins in the tips jar and leave them back at the end of the night.