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Five years jail for getaway artist
Chetram Singh, 28, called “Roy” of Betsy Ground, East Canje, Berbice, a known felon who was described as a nuisance and a kleptomaniac by the prosecution, has been sentenced to five years in jail.
Chetram Singh
Singh, a deportee and a getaway artist who escaped from police custody on two occasions, was sent to jail on a break and enter charge with intent to commit a felony.
He was before the court on a number of charges and on Wednesday was jailed by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo when he appeared before her at the Reliance Magistrate’s Court and was found guilty on the matter.
Singh was accused of breaking and entering the grocery shop of Maurice Sookraj with intent to commit a felony on October 3, last at Betsy Ground, East Canje, Berbice.
The court was told that Sookraj had secured his premises around 19:00 hrs the day before and retired to bed. On Wednesday morning he was aroused around 01:30hrs by a strange noise coming from the lower flat of his two-storey premises.
Upon peeping outside, he noticed Singh whom he knew well, with a crew bar ripping the boards from the walls of his home which houses a grocery shop. Sookraj armed himself with his firearm and discharged three rounds at the bandit who managed to escape leaving his cap and his housebreaking implements behind.
Singh, who was on bail and was on the run, was not attending court and therefore had his bail escheated.
He was nabbed by police on another matter and taken to court.
He was recently released from prison.
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