A JEDBURGH woman smashed two windows at a cost of £1,500 after she was sacked from her job at a local Italian restaurant.

Thirty-nine-year-old Nadine Garvie, of High Street, pleaded guilty at the town’s sheriff court to throwing bricks through the windows at Bella Sicily in Canongate, on July 30 and 31.

Defence lawyer Ed Hulme said: “She had been working at the premises and felt aggrieved at being dismissed.

“Her ex-mother-in-law had attended at the restaurant and made a fuss that they were employing her due to her previous criminal record.

“She felt aggrieved and in the heat of the moment picked up a rock threw it through the window.”

Mr Hulme said the following day she attended at the premises to apologise for what she had done and to pick up £180 in wages she was due.

But when she was told she was not getting any she repeated the offence by throwing a brick through another window.

The court heard that the cost of the damage was £750 per window.

Sheriff Peter Paterson deferred sentence for three months for good behaviour and told Garvie to start saving money to pay compensation for the damage caused.