Two tins of milk cost woman $100,000

Dec 29, 2011 News

– magistrate tells shoplifter – I remember you

An East La Penitence woman, known for her shoplifting exploits, was yesterday fined $100,000 for stealing two tins of milk over a year ago.
Sandra Williams was charged jointly with Amanda Duncan and the accusation was that the two shoplifted two tins of 1800 grams Milex powdered milk from Nirva Supermarket, Sheriff Street.
Duncan was fined $75,000 and faces up to nine months in jail if she fails to pay.
The duo was yesterday found guilty before Magistrate Fazil Azeez. Williams, the court heard, is not a first time offender. The magistrate recalled that the woman had appeared before him previously for a similar matter in which she shoplifted from a Chinese store. She was accused then pulling out a chopper and assaulting the store-owner when he confronted her.
The women, according to the police, had gone into the Nirva Supermarket, on Sheriff Street, on December 2nd, 2010 where they both picked up a can of milk, each valued at $4,835.
One of the women was seen placing the milk under her skirt while the other in a shoulder bag. The women were stopped by the security guard after a Guyanese-born ex-US Marshall saw the act. He assisted the guard in apprehending the women just as they were about to board a waiting car.
Duncan, the court heard, threw her handbag with the milk in the car and walked away. Williams sat in the vehicle and refused to come out. The women were held and later handed over to the police.
The ex-US Marshall and supermarket staffers had testified against the women.
During their trial, Williams and Duncan claimed that they were framed. They said that they went into the supermarket to buy sanitary napkins when an argument ensued with a staff member after several items fell on the floor from the shelves. The defendants claimed that the staff told her she came to give him more work.
She claimed that the staffer subsequently slapped her which caused a scuffle.
Williams also told the court in her defense that she was going to make a report to the police station but was subsequently stopped by the security guard who told her that she and her friend had stolen the two tins of milk.
The women made it clear to the court that they had only been apprehended after the staff at the store heard that she was going to the police. They claimed that they were held and framed for stealing the powdered milk.
But the court was not satisfied with the women’s story.

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