A street vendor was yesterday placed on $125,000 bail after he denied battering and robbing a woman of her gold chain at the Stabroek Market.
Christoff Braithwaite, of 19 ‘A’ George Street, Werk-en-Rust, was arraigned at the George-town Magistrates’ Courts yesterday for allegedly robbing Shavanya Wallace of a gold chain, valued $25,000, and for brutalising her at the Stabroek Market on January 23. He vehemently denied committing the offence.
It is the police’s case that Braithwaite saw Wallace and proceeded to snatch her gold chain and $10,000, she had in