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The widow of a slain gangster has dodged jail after being nabbed during an £800 shoplifting spree.

Kelly 'Bo' Green, 37, the partner of Kevin 'Gerbil' Carroll, was arrested after security staff caught her with a stolen haul of H&M clothing in her car.

The mum-of-three was confronted after shop assistants spotting her acting "suspiciously" in the high street store.

She was apprehended at Centre West shopping centre in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, in April, the Daily Record reports.

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Green appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court and was last week ordered to carry out 180 hours of unpaid work in the community as an alternative to prison.

Two men, Declan Paxton, 23, and Kevin Bain, 37, were cleared of the same charges.

Her solicitor Jim Reilly said: “She accepts she was involved but her co-accused in this case both had not guilty pleas accepted to their charges.

“She attended at East Kilbride shopping centre that day and accepts she assisted with the shoplifting .

“She is the mother of three children but would carry out any court order around childcare arrangements.”

Green, from Glasgow, is the daughter of crime boss Jamie Daniel, who died last year from cancer.

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She is believed to be part of a shoplifting gang that include her aunt, Annette Daniel, 55, who has 22 convictions for the crime and has served time in prison for thefts.

Sentencing her, Sheriff Thomas Millar said: “This was a theft of £800 of clothing, a substantial value of an expensive shoplifting expedition.

“But I am willing to make an order for unpaid work as a direct alternative to custody.”

Green will have to carry out the work within nine months. In 2014, Green admitted stealing £1200 worth of clothing from the Glasgow Fort shopping centre and Strathkelvin Retail Park in Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow, with two other women.

However, she was given a community payback order at Glasgow Sheriff Court rather than a jail term.

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Also in 2014, Annette Daniel and Paxton admitted shoplifting at Buchanan Galleries shopping centre.

More than £900 worth of goods were found in a bag being carried by Paxton.

Daniel was given nine months in jail while Paxton, from Ruchill, Glasgow, was given a 135-hour community service order.

In 2012, Paxton was accused of going on a £12,000 shoplifting spree in Solihull in the West Midlands.

A year earlier, when only 17, he and another woman admitted stealing £318 worth of clothes from a Glasgow store. Annette Daniel, who was arrested with the pair, had the same charges dropped.

Underworld enforcer Carroll, 29, was shot dead in a car parked outside an Asda supermarket in Glasgow’s Robroyston in January 2010.

He had been at the centre of a feud with the rival Lyons gang, which has seen a series of tit-for-tat shootings this year.

Carroll and Green had two children together and lived in Lennoxtown, near Glasgow.

The couple’s £217,000 villa was later seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act and Green was forced to move out.

In 2006, it was revealed the country’s largest shoplifting gang were being run by Annette Daniel and Jean McGovern, 43, a member of the McGovern crime family.