A WOMAN has been put under social work supervision for a year for having a stolen a mirror.

Mhairi O’Connell, 32, had originally been charged with breaking into a flat in Overtoun Court last May and stealing a number of items.

But she later pleaded guilty to the much lesser charge of the reset of one mirror. Her co-accused in the case had his not guilty pleas accepted by the Crown.

Last week at Dumbarton Sheriff Court, O’Connell appeared for sentencing and heard fiscal depute Emma Thomson explain how a wall hanging mirror with gold stripes was taken in the incident on May 29, 2017.

When police turned up at O’Connell’s home, they found a mirror propped against the wall in the living room and said the believed it was stolen.

O’Connell told them she found it at the bottom of the close and brought it home to keep children from smashing it.

Defence solicitor Tom Brown said his client, of Kimberley Street, Clydebank, was interviewed and accepted she had found the mirror and taken it upstairs.

He said: “She was aware because it was the talk of the steamy, if I can put it that way, that the flat had been broken into.

“She was suspicious of the mirror. She didn’t know for certain.”

Mr Brown added her one previous conviction for an assault had been under provocation after “horrible remarks”.

Sheriff Simon Pender said given the reduced charge, he would impose a community payback order with supervision for 12 months.

In March this year, Elizabeth Douglas, 53, of Overtoun Court, pleaded guilty to the May 2017 break-in at her neighbour’s home and stealing two lamps, a television set, a vacuum cleaner, a quantity of electrical goods and jewellery and toiletries.

The court was told there had been a dispute for weeks between the neighbours over a drugs debt.