Ganesh Rampersaud, the accused in the hold-up of a woman carried out at gunpoint, yesterday denied the armed robbery charge, but admitted that he stole a motorbike and broke traffic laws by riding without a licence.
Rampersaud was remanded to prison after he appeared before Magistrate Alex Moore at the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Court, where he was arraigned on two separate charges.
It was alleged that on November 9, in Sophia, Rampersaud, being armed with a gun, robbed Joanna Peters of her BlackBerry smartphone, a