A forklift driver has been jailed for a year after admitting he was the inside man in the theft of mobile phones worth GBP900,000.

The Scotsman newspaper reported that Edward Morcombe, 27, from Fauldhouse, West Lothian, claimed he was not paid for his part in helping the thieves to hook up a trailer, loaded with 10,000 Motorola T180 mobile phones, to a lorry and drive it out of the company's Bathgate plant.

Mr Morecombe's part was to release the hydraulic hitch that secured the trailer containing the phones.

Former Bathgate yard man John Griffen was jailed for a year in March for his part in the theft, which occurred in June last year. He admitted receiving GBP2000 from the thieves for allowing a storage yard to be used to transfer the phones from the Motorola trailer to another truck after the theft.

The mobile phones have not been recovered.