A labourer was jailed for two months on Wednesday for stealing a dress from a city business.
Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry handed down the sentence to Troy Lyte, 44, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, where he pleaded guilty to the larceny of a dress, valued $2,000, from Rabindranauth Rampersaud, owner of R&R Imports.
It was the police’s case that at 4 pm on November 18, Lyte took the dress off a mannequin at R&R Imports, where it was on display, and walked away with it. Lyte admitted to taking the dress but disputed the police’s accusation that he stole the dress. Instead, he claimed that he picked up the dress after it fell off a mannequin while he was cleaning up in front of R&R Imports. “It fall off… I pick it up and put it in my dust box,” he told the magistrate.
