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Chain snatcher gets 18 months

Aug 10, 2013 News

A 20-year-old man will spend the next 18 months in prison contemplating legal ways to provide for his children after he told the court that he stole a gold chain to be in a better position to take care of his two-month old baby daughter and two-year-old son.
Yesterday, Kennard Persaud of ‘B’ Field Sophia pleaded guilty to a simple larceny charge read to him by Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
The court heard that on August 7 at Charlotte Street, Georgetown, he stole one gold chain valued $100,000 from Rafeek Khan of Cummings Park, Sophia.
Court documents revealed that on the day in question, the complainant was walking along Charlotte Street when the defendant walked up to him, snatched the gold chain and tried to run away. Khan raised an alarm and chased the accused. He was eventually caught and taken to the station.
Ranks at the station found the gold chain in the defendant’s mouth which the victim identified as his property. Persaud was subsequently charged for the said offence.
The unrepresented defendant, who has no antecedents known to the court, begged Magistrate Latchman to be lenient with him.
“Your Worship, I am really really sorry for what I did, I got a li’l son who is two years old and a daughter who is two months old and I only thief it to look after me children. Your Worship, he got back his chain and that is de most important thing,” Persaud said.
Magistrate Latchman then sentenced him.

 

 

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