Gary Grant, the man who escaped from police custody while being held at Stabroek Police Outpost, was yesterday ordered to serve a three-month sentence after he was found guilty of four offences.
Grant, who was on trial before Magistrate Annette Singh in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court Eleven, was sentenced to three months in jail for each of the four charges. The sentences, however, will run concurrently, and so Grant will only serve three months.
Two of the charges stated that on September 19th, in the vicinity of the Stabroek Market, George-town, he stole a cellphone, valued $35,000, from Nadina Maloney and on the same day, while in lawful custody at the Stabroek Police Outpost for the offence of simple larceny, he escaped.
The remaining charges stated that on September 19th, at the Stabroek Police Outpost, he damaged a pair of handcuffs and light switches, among other items, which were all the property of the Guyana Police Force, with a total value of $39,300, and that on the same day and at the same location, he behaved disorderly.
Grant was arrested in September after a report was made of a cellphone being stolen by him. While he was being kept in custody at the Stabroek Police Outpost, he used a cutlass to free himself from the handcuffs as only one hand was cuffed to a wall inside the outpost. He then made good his escape after he used the same cutlass to scare the officer who was on duty at the time. He was eventually captured by ranks who were sent out on patrol after he made his escape.
