Jonathan Bucks reports for St Andrews’ The Saint on a debt-laden student who pleaded guilty to stealing from a post office:

A part time student and University librarian with a previously unblemished record has been ordered to carry out unpaid work after stealing more than £2500 from a village post office.

Dylan Lindo, 28, was responsible for organising pouches of cash collected at the post office in the tiny north-east Fife hamlet, Balmullo.

However, when it became clear in July, 2011 that there was a discrepancy between computer records and the actual amount handed over, Lindo was suspended from his duties…

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