Less than three weeks after he was ordered to do community service, a 16-year-old student of the Linden Foundation Secondary School was back before Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Christianburg Magistrates’ Court to answer another charge of break and enter and larceny.
The young man, who was accused of breaking into the apartment of a Linden Foundation School teacher, was remanded to prison yesterday after pleading guilty to the charge. He is to return to court on April 20 for decision.
According to a resident of Amelia’s Ward, she noticed the boy in the compound of the teachers’ hostel and kept an eye out. When he went out of sight, the woman quietly summoned other neighbours and they surrounded the building and entered the house to search for him.
“He went right in deh,” said an eyewitness, while adding that the boy had taken off his school shirt and covered himself with a sheet in the corner of a wardrobe. “He got luck he was a schoolboy and we sorry fuh he mother or else he