Three men were yesterday remanded to prison on a charge that they stole over $8M in items from a Chinese store during a break-in.
Ingram Williams, 59, a stallholder of Victoria Village, Stephen Jordan, 40, and John Kelvin Heliger, 21, a labourer, denied that between January 20th and January 21st, 2015, they broke and entered the property of Zhuzhen Yan at 148 Regent and Alexander streets, Georgetown and stole a quantity of items amounting to a total value of $8.317M.
Prosecutor Renetta Bentham-Andrews told the court Yan secured the property on January 20th, leaving everything intact, and went to bed. The next day, at about 3am, she was awakened by a phone call in which she was informed that her property was broken into.
Bentham-Andrews said Yan did not understand but she decided to make checks around the property and observed that it was ransacked and many goods were missing. Yan also discovered her glass door was shattered and a steel shutter prised open. As she ventured outside, she met the three accused in company of the police and a quantity of the stolen items were recovered, the prosecutor added, while pointing out that the accused admitted to the crime in a caution statement.
As a result, the unrepresented trio was then remanded to prison and the matter was adjourned until February 3rd.
