A psychologist caught stealing a Karen Walker designer dress was locked up in the shop while police were called.
The health worker, who now admits professional misconduct related both to the theft and to a drunk-driving conviction, had taken scissors and cut a security tag off the dress.
She had taken the $276 dress into a changing cubicle and put it in her handbag. On her way out she returned two other items onto their hangers.
The shop cannot be named because of suppressions, but it was not a Karen Walker store.
"Upon leaving [the shop] with the stolen dress hidden in her handbag, a shop alarm sounded," according to an agreed summary of facts given to the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal at a hearing today.