A man was yesterday sentenced to six months imprisonment after he told a city magistrate to do what she had to because he would be unable to pay off a $30,000 debt he incurred for the services of a taxi driver.
Jageshwar Sewnarine, a Berbician, did not intend to waste the court’s time yesterday, when he pleaded guilty to a charge which alleged that on December 14, 2018, at Middle Street, Georgetown, with intent to defraud, he obtained credit or liability by use of a vehicle for transportation, incurred debt of $30,000 and failed to make the payment to owner of the vehicle, Ryan Pires.
Pires said that on the date, after he asked Sewnarine for the money, he drove Sewnarine to the bank, where the man claimed he had to draw out the money from his account. Pires related that he went into the bank with Sewnarine, and there he waited in vain until the bank closed.
On the other hand, while Sewnarine initially said that he failed to make the payment because he had no identification card to draw out money from the bank and would pay Pires next Friday, he soon retracted the statement and told the magistrate that he had no friends, and so would be unable to acquire the money to pay the debt, so she should do what she has to do.
Sewnarine was then sentenced to six months in prison.
