A BLACKBURN town centre busker who had played all day for just £14 lost £10 as he was putting his guitar away.
Anthony Scott told Blackburn magistrates he didn’t know if the money had blown away or been stolen.
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But he said he did know it was wrong to go shoplifting which was what he did to try and make up the shortfall.
Scott, 44, of the Salvation Army Hostel, Heaton Street, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to stealing socks worth £20 from Sports Direct.
He was given a conditional discharge for six months and ordered to pay £15 victim surcharge.
Scott told the court he had recently managed to get contact with his 14-year-old son and had been trying really hard to keep out of trouble.
“To be honest I don’t know why I did it,” Scott told the court.
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