TWO thugs are facing jail after losing the plot when shop staff refused to give them a refund for a ‘faulty’ vape machine.

Jamie Cadle and Oliver Winters returned to the newsagents in Johnstone where the e-cigarette had been purchased and asked for their money back, only to be told the owner was not there.

The following day, they went to the shop again to request a refund – and flipped when they were once again told to leave.

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Tempers flared and a fight broke out, which resulted in the shop being trashed, Winters throwing and smashing a bottle and Cadle making off with goods worth nearly £700.

The details emerged when Cadle and Winters, both 26, appeared in the dock at Paisley Sheriff Court to go on trial over the events at Khan’s Newsagents, in Quarry Street, on November 11 last year.

Cadle pleaded guilty to conducting himself in a disorderly manner, brandishing a piece of wood, shouting and acting aggressively, thereby committing a breach of the peace, and stealing cigarette lighters and money.

Winters admitted culpably or recklessly throwing a glass bottle which struck shop worker Shamal Camal Razaie.

The court heard that police were called but Winters and Cadle had fled by the time they arrived.

Officers then reviewed CCTV footage from nearby businesses and were able to identify the pair.

It emerged Cadle had swiped 10 boxes of cigarettes, a box of lighters and cleared out the till of coins.

Defence solicitor Terry Gallanagh told the court Cadle recognised he had a drug addiction and wanted to get clean in a bid to turn his life around.

He added: “This was an argument over, as he describes it, a vape machine. This was purchased and, when opened, there were bits missing. He went to the shop on November 9 and was told the owner wasn’t in and to return the following day. He went back on November 10. They felt the gentlemen were not of a mind to refund or make good the item that had been sold to them.

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“There was a verbal argument. Thereafter he accepts he lost his temper.”

Defence solicitor Mark Chambers said Winters hadn’t intended to harm anyone by throwing the bottle but had reacted whilst caught up in a shoving match.

After hearing that both men had spent the equivalent of nine-month sentences on remand over the case, Sheriff Seith Ireland called for background reports and adjourned the case until next month.

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