Ex-con jailed for Baroombar break-in

Sep 19, 2015 News

A 41-year-old ex-convict, who broke into a popular city strip club and made off with a set of kitchen items, was given a nine-month jail term yesterday.

Convict: Bernard Shaw

Years after serving time on a larceny charge, Bernard Shaw, of Lot 7 Enmore, East Coast Demerara, was taken back to the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court where, before Magistrate Ann McLennan, he readily confessed to the crime he committed on Wednesday.
The court heard that on September 16, last, at North Road, Bourda, Georgetown, Shaw broke and entered Baroombar and stole a microwave oven and gas cylinder. The items, which belonged to Tyrone Hamilton, amounted to some $47,000.
Police Prosecutor, Corporal Deniro Jones, told the court that Shaw was employed to do odd jobs around the strip club. The man, according to the Prosecution, has no fixed place of abode. On Wednesday, Hamilton secured his business premises and left. When he returned, he discovered that the items were missing.
When the footage from the Close Circuit Television (CCTV) system was reviewed, it showed the 41-year-old entering and leaving the entity. Hamilton reported the matter to the police and Shaw was later apprehended by the police. He was charged with Break and Enter and Larceny.
According to the Prosecutor, the items were recovered.
In mitigation, Shaw begged the Magistrate for leniency, saying that he is sickly. The court heard too that he was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment on a simple larceny charge in 2006. With his guilty plea before the Magistrate, Shaw was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.