Twenty-one-year-old Keron Perreira, accused of the knifepoint hold-up of a teacher of the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre, was remanded to prison yesterday
Perreira was not required to plead when he was brought to the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday.
It is the police’s case that on December 14, being armed with a knife, Perreira, along with at least one other person, robbed teacher Shazar Mohammad of $152,000 worth of items.
According to Prosecutor Bharat Mangru, Mohammad had just left the Guyana Society for the Blind about 21:00 hrs and was on his way to a bus park when he was approached by two men. One of the men, it is said, placed a knife to Mohammad’s throat and proceeded to relieve the man of a BlackBerry, valued $30,000, a laptop valued $120,000 and a shoulder bag valued $2,000.
The defendant was later apprehended, told of the offence, and admitted to it, Mangru added.
Perreira, a vendor and professed sex worker, was remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry and is set to return to court on January 22 when the case would be called for statements.
