Comet

Worked in a factory, then worked on the roads with my older brother laying tarmacs, things like that.

Then ended up being a delivery driver for Comet, which was a, um, a-

Comet?

Comet, yeah.

Yeah.

So it's like couriers, you know, sell like white goods and things.

Yesterday, they were picking up the pieces of her shattered life as she sobbed inconsolably in her bedroom Ruing the wrong turn that had added a criminal record to her degree and had jeopardized her dream of professional success.

Reid, age 24, from a comfortable upbringing in Edmonton, North London, walked in brazenly and stole a flat-screen television when she noticed that the Enfield branch of Comet, Comet's kind of like Best Buys, okay, so Best Buys was prized open, if you think of what that image is like in this main town, She walks in, she steals a flat screen TV when she noticed that the Enfield branch of Comet had been broken into on Sunday night.

Reed's mother, Pamela, told the Times last night that her daughter was, quote, baffled by her criminal behavior.

The mother says she didn't want a TV.

She doesn't need a telly, she said, adding that a 27-inch television already hangs in her bedroom in the family home.

Speaking from her home in Rosemary Avenue, where a huge legally acquired TV dominates the living room and an Audi sits in the driveway, Reid's relatives said that she bitterly regrets the, quote, apparently spontaneous theft that, at a stroke, has put her future career in jeopardy.

Reid said that she had been on her way to McDonald's in nearby Enfield on Sunday night when she noticed that the Comet store had been broken into.

Caught up in the hysteria of the riots, She made a split-second decision to join the intruders.