Tesco get £1.50 compensation, man £180 out of pocket, over spilt milk

A Welsh man on benefits is £181.50 less well off after he spilt a bottle of milk at a Tesco supermarket.

BBC Wales reports that the retail giant won £1.50 in compensation from 40-year-old Cornelius Price after Llandridnod Wells Magistrates' Court heard that he "threw a six-pint bottle of milk in a temper".

Price was also fined £75 and the judge told him to pay a £20 victim surcharge and £85 costs which will be deducted from his benefits at £10 a fortnight.

Price, who admitted criminal damage, said he threw the bottle towards the store manager saying "catch it", but it spilt by accident.

However, Julie Sullivan for the prosecution claimed he was verbally abusive and escorted off the premises.

She said: "He was told to return the milk he was holding and leave the store and he threw it at the floor in temper."

Mr Price's defence lawyer, Phil Sherrard, said: "This is minor criminal damage. He knows he should have been more careful with the milk."