A teenager was sentenced yesterday to two months in jail for stealing a phone he said he thought belonged to no one.
City Magistrate Annette Singh heard that on August 3, at King Street, Georgetown, Kurt Robinson, 19, of 32 Princes Street, stole a Samsung Galaxy cellular phone, worth $46,000 and belonging to Claudia Brotherson.
Robinson, who was unrepresented, pleaded guilty.
The police prosecutor told the court that Brotherson was in a store shopping when she put her phone on the counter to pay the cashier. She later realised her phone was missing as was a young man who was standing next to her. She quickly raised an alarm and the police were summoned. The police searched the area and Robinson with the phone in his possession. When he was caught, he told the police that he did not know that the phone had belonged to anyone, so he took it.