A YOUTH soccer coach who stole more than €11,000 worth of iPods from Marks and Spencer has been remanded on bail pending sentence.
Reginald Horton (39) took the music players to help pay off a drug debt he had run up. He used them to take €1,000 off his debt. Judge Yvonne Murphy noted he was addressing his addiction and adjourned sentencing until March next.
Horton, of Glenview Park, Tallaght, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to theft of iPods worth €11,504 from Marks and Spencer, Liffey Valley, on April 30th, 2010.
Garda Kevin Dingley told Pieter LeVert, prosecuting, Horton and another man pulled up to the store in a van and went in. They were spotted on CCTV going to the cabinet containing the MP3 players and filling a bag with iPods. They then returned to the van and left.
The registration of the vehicle was picked up by the cameras and gardaí traced it to a house. They found the van parked outside and Horton inside with his partner. He was arrested and made full admissions to gardaí.