Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry remanded to prison a 23-year-old man who after disembarking a minibus allegedly snatched a gold chain from another passenger.
The Georgetown Magistrates’ Court heard that Lennox Wayne, of lot 1308 Diamond New Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, on January 10, at Georgetown, allegedly stole from the person of Richlin Springer, a gold chain valued $23,000. He denied the charge of larceny from the person when it was read to him.
In presenting the facts of the case, Police Sergeant Lionel Harvey told the court that on the said day, Wayne, who was a passenger in the route 44 minibus, requested that the driver stop so