Thief jailed for stabbing man with ice-pick

Mar 04, 2017 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News

Jermaine Jeffrey, 23, of 48 Pike Street Kitty, Georgetown, was yesterday sentenced to three years

Jailed for three years: Jermaine Jeffrey

imprisonment after Magistrate Annette Singh found him guilty on an armed robbery charge at the conclusion of the trial in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
The court heard that Jeffrey stabbed a man several times with an ice-pick before relieving him of cash and cellular phones during the robbery.
The charge stated that on December 15, last, in Queenstown, Georgetown, Jeffrey, while armed with an ice-pick, robbed Keron Humphrey of two cellular phones, $1,400 cash and other items.
The Prosecutor stated that on the day in question Jeffrey confronted Humphrey at Irving and Laluni Streets, Queenstown, and stabbed him several times before relieving him of his cash and cellular phones.
The injured man then raised an alarm and public-spirited citizens ran to his rescue and apprehended the accused and handed him over to the police.
On Jeffrey’s first appearance before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan, the accused pleaded not guilty to the charge and was remanded to prison after Police Prosecutor Jones objected to bail begin granted, citing that the accused was positively identified by the Virtual Complainant (Humphrey) after an identification parade was held.
The prosecutor was also opposed to bail being granted based on the nature and gravity of the charge and that the stolen articles were recovered in his possession.