Dawlish News

A 18-year-old student studying Law stole a book valued at £230. Philip Smith lives with his grandmother in Dawlish and works as a barman at the Langstone Cliff Hotel, Dawlish Warren.

He had previously been reprimanded for burglary and theft after going to a former school and taking money from a communal lounge, he was then suspended and moved to Dawlish to live with his grandmother.

Smith had worked on Sunday afternoons voluntarily at the Oxfam charity shop in Exeter. When the manager noticed the book plus two others were missing a member of staff discovered the book for sale on eBay the book was listed on the account of Smith's grandmother.