A Tesco worker stole customers' personal details from the supermarket giant's database.

Thomas Wengierow admitted a charge under the Data Protection Act committed when he worked at the Tesco Customer Services call centre in Baird Avenue, Dundee.

Dundee Sheriff Court heard he "knowingly or recklessly obtained or disclosed" personal data from a Tesco database at the centre.

The court was told Wengierow, who returned to Scotland from his native Lithuania for the court appearance, copied data about customers' personal details into an email and sent it to himself.

Wengierow, 47, of Pitalpin Court, Dundee, pleaded guilty to a charge under the Data Protection Act on summary complaint.

Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC deferred sentence until next month for social work background reports to allow the court to consider community based sentences as an alternative to prison.

Wengierow was ordained to appear at a further hearing in May.

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