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Accused chain snatcher remanded to prison

Jan 15, 2013 News

 

A resident of East La Penitence Housing Scheme has been placed before the court for snatching a $170,000 gold chain in the vicinity of the Bourda Market.
The defendant, Kennard Persaud, 25, allegedly stole Cindy Ramnarine’s gold chain. Persaud pleaded not guilty to the charge.
According to the prosecution, Ramnarine was walking along Light Street when the defendant ran past her snatching and bursting her gold chain in the process. The man continued running but the woman raised an alarmed and public spirited persons aided in his apprehension. The gold chain was recovered on his person.     Attorney At Law Paul Fung- A -Fat asked that the complainant’s necklace be returned to her since she wishes to mend it.
Persaud was remanded to prison until January 22.
And a 19 year old boy from Lot 8 East La Penitence Housing Scheme has been sentenced to community service and ordered to pay a court fine of $3,000 after he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on a drug possession charge.
The accused, Shawn Barrow, was charged for having half a gram of marijuana in his possession.  He confessed to the crime as he stood before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.
“A friend gave it to him for him to try it your worship,” Attorney at Law Paul Fung- A- Fat told the court, who provided legal representation to the teenager.

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