Topshop sales assistant 'stole £25K in clothes to sell on Ebay'

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The shop assistant is accused of stealing more than £25,000 worth of clothes and cosmetics. Credit: Press Association.

A sales assistant at Topshop's flagship store on Oxford Street stole almost £25,000 of clothes and cosmetics to flog on eBay, a court heard.

Stephen Hung, 35, is accused of pocketing £6,000 from the scam - and stealing "in excess of 700" garments from the fashionable clothing shop.

Prosecutors said Hung targeted items worth £24,600 that had not been tagged and then hid them as he strolled out of the store at the end of his shifts between February and December last year.

Prosecutor Grace Ong said Hung set up three Ebay accounts and then sold the stock for profit.

Hung admitted a single charge of theft back in July and will be sentenced later today.