Jail for aspiring hairdresser who stole €6,500 of designer items from Brown Thomas

Ellavita Flynn was caught leaving Brown Thomas' Grafton Street store with a €2,280 Luis Vuitton handbag. This item was the only one recovered.

A young woman who stole over €6,500 of designer items from Dublin's Brown Thomas and then sold them on the street for “relatively small money” has been jailed for nine months.

Ellavita Flynn (25) had gone into Brown Thomas on Grafton street, selected items and taken them without paying, four times over two weeks.