A robbery convict, who was sentenced to four years in jail on Tuesday, was handed a further three years yesterday after he pleaded guilty to another robbery charge, when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Junior Nurse, 22, a labourer of 21 Hill Street, Albouystown decided to enter a guilty plea when he appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore who was conducting a trial into a robbery charge made out against him.
The defendant and two other men were accused of robbing Ramanand Jagdeo of three gold rings, one gold chain, one cell phone, one vacuum cleaner with compressor, $315,000 and a quantity of goods all together valuing $1,754,000 and one Toyota Spacio motor car number PPP 4395 valued $3.7 million belonging to Linda Bonita.
Nurse, Devon Forde a 28-year-old goldsmith of 56 Second Street, Campbellville and Adrian Bishop, 28, of 67 Garnett Street, Newtown, Kitty were each released on $100,000 bail when they had appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman in September 2014.
But Nurse was later remanded on February 26 after he was accused of robbing Champawattie Singh of a Samsung Galaxy smartphone, valued $60,000, and using personal violence against the woman.
After the defendant informed the court of his change of plea, the magistrate sentenced him to three years imprisonment.
Nurse was the only accused who was present at yesterday’s hearing since both Forde and Bishop had since lost their lives.
Forde succumbed at the Georgetown Hospital in January, a few days after he was run over by a minibus. His relatives were adamant that the act was a deliberate one, stating that he was being chased by the minibus. At the time, he was riding a scooter and the minibus had rammed into the cycle before running him over, reports said.
Meanwhile, Bishop was killed outside a party on Hill Street, Albouystown, in September 2014, after a policewoman with whom he had a relationship reported that he had assaulted her. Persons who claimed to have witnessed the incident alleged that the man was shot by a policeman who was beating him in his head with a gun.
But the police in a statement had said that it was during a struggle between Bishop and a policeman who was armed that he made efforts to relieve the rank of the weapon during which a round was discharged and Bishop was struck in the neck.
