A Bartica miner was yesterday fined $80,000 and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to stealing a car battery.
The defendant, Deon Obermuller, 40, of Lot 39 5th Avenue, Bartica, was read a charge which stated that on November 29, at Croal Street, he stole one Power Master Battery valued $60,000, property of Allister Parris.
Obermuller was shot in the knee by the complainant as he