A mother of ten was last Thursday admitted to bail in the sum of $60,000, after it was alleged that she stole €100, from a 13-year-old girl.
The charge levelled against Leonie Gill, 38, of South Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara, is that on March 11, at Georgetown she stole €100 from a 13-year-old girl.
She pleaded not guilty to the charge when it was read to her by Magistrate Sueanna Lovell.
Police Prosecutor Denise Booker told the court that Gill joined a taxi at River View Ruimveldt, with other passengers along with the teenage girl.
Booker related that Gill saw the young lady with the money and inquired from her what she was doing with it. The girl then told Gill, that she was going to Stabroek to meet her aunt.
Booker further informed the court that the defendant took the money from the girl and told her that she was going to give her Guyana currency. She said that when the taxi arrived at Lombard Street, she told the girl to come out of the car because the people in the car are thieves. When the girl got out of the car, she asked Gill for the €100, but Gill insisted she had returned it.
The girl saw the police passing and alerted them. Gill was arrested and taken to the Brickdam police station. While at the station as the police were about to body search Gill, the money fell out of her pants waist, the prosecutor said.
Gill was unrepresented by an attorney at her hearing.
She was granted bail in the sum of $60,000.
The matter was adjourned until April 8.
