Keon Browne, a farmer, was yesterday sentenced to a total of six years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to two separate charges of break and enter and larceny.
It is alleged that on the night of November 22 at Brooms Estate, Mabaruma, North West District, Browne, of Brooms Estate, broke and entered the dwelling house of Hulan Mentis with intent to steal and therein stole a quantity of items amounting to $100,000 belonging to Mentis.
The second charge read between November 22 and 23 at Kumaka Waterfront, North West District, Browne broke and entered the shop of Ramroop Naipaul and stole therein a quantity of food stuff, amounting to $84,500.
Browne pleaded guilty to both charges when they were read to him by Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Courts.
According to Prosecutor Deniro Jones,