A JEWELLERY thief has been jailed for eight months at Selkirk Sheriff Court.
Twenty year old Declan Russell from Edinburgh, admitted breaking a house in Walkerburn's Park Avenue on January 16 and stealing the jewellery.
A neighbour had noticed suspicious activity at the house and alerted police who were waiting for the car when it reached Peebles.
Russell was already serving a jail sentence and not due to be released until December for motoring offences connected with the same incident.
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