A security guard at a Lidl supermarket who broke a shoplifter’s leg as he and an accomplice tried to flee has been spared jail.
LidlLeandro Da Silva, 28, who was employed at the store in Edinburgh despite having no training, approached David O’Connor and Natasha Robertson after seeing them trying to pilfer items, a court heard.
The pair then ‘fell to the ground’ with the guard ‘on top’, after which O’Connor stopped struggling, the court was told.Xander Van Der Scheer, prosecuting, said Da Silva reacted to Robertson approaching by ‘grabbing the female shoplifter by her hand and dragged her on top of Mr O’Connor, who was still lying on the ground’.
A colleague put O’Connor in the recovery while an ambulance was called, and he was later found to have suffered complex fractures to two bones in his left leg, requiring two rounds of surgery, and deep vein thrombosis. His defence team said the security firm which contracted him out to Lidl had given him ‘no training whatsoever’ and simply told him his job was to ‘stop and apprehend shoplifters’.
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