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Career criminal jailed for seven years
Had served time and received a whipping
Delroy Nero, who has been described as a career criminal was on Friday sentenced to a total of seven years
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in jail by Magistrate Rhondell Weaver when he re-appeared before her at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court.
He was found guilty on two counts of robbery under arms committed on Wednesday September 30, 2015.
Nero, 26, of lot 3 Edward Street Rosignol, West Bank Berbice, is accused of being in company with others and armed with a gun, when he robbed Parbattie Budhoo of $300,000, US$100 and one Samsung cell phone.
He is also accused of on the same date and time, robbed Abdool Rahim of one Cell Phone and $5,000. The incident was committed at Bennet Dam, Rosignol, West Bank Berbice.
Prosecutor, Corporal Rochelle Mars, stated that around 20:30 hrs on the day in question, Budhoo, the owner of the A and S Supermarket, known as the Ice Cream Shop at Rosignol was with her husband taking two of their employees home.
They went to Bennet Dam and in the process of turning around after dropping off one of the employees, were accosted by two masked men, one of whom was armed with a handgun. Nero, the gunman, discharged a round, while he and his accomplice proceeded to rob Budhoo and Rahim, who were her employees.
Nero stumbled and his mask slipped allowing the victims to see his face before he could pull it back on.
He and alleged accomplice, Jermaine Carter, were later identified at an ID parade and charged. Carter was subsequently found not guilty. Nero was sentenced to four years for robbing Budhoo and three years for robbing Rahim. The sentences will run concurrently.
Back in September 2009, Nero, then 19, was sentenced to five years in jail and ordered to receive five strokes by then Magistrate Chandra Sohan. He had pleaded guilty to the charge of robbery under arms, committed on Wazir Dilchand, 35, a salesman of Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, Berbice, of $730,000.
Wazir sold rice from his Canter truck through East Berbice. Nero who was employed with Wazir as a porter had robbed the businessman while he was in company with two others.
Nero and his cohorts had worked for the entire day and around 13:15 hrs, while in the vicinity of Patrick’s Dam, Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, they stopped to make a delivery, but instead one of the men pulled out a gun and hit Wazir in his head. They then relieved him of $730,000 which he had in a canister before escaping in the surrounding bushes.
Before that incident, Nero was recently released after serving a three-year sentence for Robbery with Violence.
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