Nine months jail for youth who admits to robbing woman

Feb 23, 2019 News

“I owed a man some money, so I decided to snatch the woman bag and run away…unfortunately, I ran into the police,” were the words of 21-year-old Michael English, be

Michael English

fore being sentenced to nine months imprisonment.
English , a resident of Kitty, Georgetown, pleaded guilty to the charge which read that on February 21, at Stabroek Market, he robbed Natasha Kumar of $171,000 cash, and an iPhone valued $100,000.
English appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.

Police Prosecutor James Goodman told the court that on the day in question; the victim was walking in the vicinity of Stabroek Market, where she was going to purchase medicine for her mother.
The woman was approached by English, who snatched her handbag containing the articles mentioned in the charge, and ran away.
However, “the woman began shouting, “Thief! Thief!” and English, in an attempt to escape, ran into a City Police rank,” Goodman added.
He was then arrested and taken into custody.
The court heard that while at the City Constabulary Headquarters, the stolen articles were found in his possession. He was also positively identified by the victim as the person who robbed her.
English, in addressing the court, stated that he saw the woman with the phone and decided to snatch her bag, because he has a young baby to take care of and he owed a man some money.
The Magistrate, after listening to both sides, sentenced English to nine months’ imprisonment, citing that he did not waste the court’s time.

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