A casual Royal Mail sorter - employed to clear the Christmas rush - used his car boot to hoard nearly £2,000 worth of expensive gifts stolen at an East London depot.
Computing student Numan Hussain, 20, currently a second-year BA under-graduate at East London University, stored the items for a thief - also employed at the depot.
He pleaded guilty at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court (pictured) to dishonestly handling three stolen mobile phones, an I-phone, Blackberry and Kindle and was ordered to perform 120 hours community service and pay £1,000 costs.
The court heard Hussain was "deeply ashamed and embarrassed" at being the first member of his family to be convicted of a criminal offence.
He met the thief while working at the depot and investigators moved in when the second man placed the items in his car boot.
Hussain is now "depressed" and "full of remourse and regret" the court was told and is reeling from losing an important computer internship as a result of the conviction.
"The items were products of a breach of trust," Recorder Millar QC told the defendant. "After the thefts you were providing storage space in the boot of your car."
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