Misconduct | Worker wearing a GORILLA MASK stole thousands from employer

A Stagecoach employee clad in a gorilla mask stole £34,000 from the company’s safe in the Worthing branch.

The Worthing Herald reported that Vernon McLellan locked up the premises and set the alarm at the Stagecoach depot.

However, CCTV footage caught McLellan returning to the premises later that night to commit his “inept but desperate” burglary. It was found the employee then got his wife Louise – who at the time worked as a bus driver at another of the company’s branches - to handle the money in the midnight burglary.

On Wednesday, the pair pleaded guilty and appeared at Lewes Crown Court for sentencing.