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Man caught with stolen school laptop
A MAN was caught with a computer which had been stolen from a school during a break-in.
Officers found the laptop, which had been taken from Mortimer School in Reading Road, South Shields, during a burglary in December 2005, when they raided an address in Sunderland in November last year.
They also found 630 diazepam tablets and 3,850 cash stored in a safe inside the property.
Barry Shaw, 39, of Frederick Street, South Shields, admitted possessing the drugs and handling the stolen laptop after they were seized from his girlfriend's home.
Shaw said he bought the laptop from a man who came selling it at the door.
He told police most of the cash found in the safe was from a recent Lottery win, and he had the diazepam tablets for panic attacks.
Mr Recorder Kershaw fined him 3,000 and told him: "The school that suffered this burglary, I have no doubt, could ill afford to lose valuable computers."
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