A 35-year-old man who appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson was yesterday placed on $75,000 bail for allegedly stealing a $98,000 Blackberry cell phone.
Fitzroy Holligan pleaded not guilty to stealing one Blackberry 8320 model cell phone from Sharon Younge on January 20 at Georgetown.
According to his attorney-at-law, Mark Waldron who appeared in association with Rushell Liverpool, Holligan is a father of three and a clothes and haberdashery trader. Waldron said that his client never had the intention of permanently depriving Younge of her phone since she had given him the phone to download music.
Waldron said in return his client gave Younge a Samsung phone. He said that the phone was returned to Younge.
However Younge told the court that on the day in question, Holligan came and asked her to make a radio call to Mahdia. Younge said that she patches calls from the interior to other places. She said that she told Holligan that she was not aware of a frequency for that location and he asked to make a telephone call.
Younge told the court that in the meantime she went into another room to fold her linens. Some 10 minutes later when she was looking for her phone and rang it Holligan, who had already left, answered and said that he had just bought the phone for $30,000.
Holligan is to return to court on February 24 for statements.