A BUNGLING pair of crooks who were caught “orange handed” after breaking into a busy office building have been given community payback orders.
Reece Hunt and Lee Armstrong donned heavy orange gloves to avoid leaving DNA and fingerprints at Dundee’s Figure 8 Consultancy Services.
But the hapless thieves then proceeded to break in while occupants of several neighbouring properties watched on.
Police arrived and Hunt and Armstrong immediately held up their hands and said a stolen laptop computer had been stashed in a rucksack.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard Armstrong had previously served time in prison in connection with assault and robbery.
Hunt, 18, of Adamson Court, and Armstrong, 23, of Landsdowne Court, pleaded guilty to breaking into commercial premises in Whitehall Street and stealing a laptop.
George Donnelly, representing Armstrong, said: “I ask the court accepts this was a one off, silly, silly escapade.”
Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC imposed community payback orders on both men — with 80 hours unpaid work for Hunt and 130 hours for Armstrong.
She said: “This is a serious matter.
“Breaking in to any premises is always serious.”
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