Vishnu Sookdeo, a homeless man who claimed he broke the window of an ambulance to get back at the government, was yesterday sentenced to nine months in jail.
Sookdeo, 33, was arraigned before Magistrate Dylon Bess at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, where he pleaded guilty to a damage to property charge.
The charge states that on November 12th, at Brickdam and Cornhill Street, Georgetown, Sookdeo damaged a window of a motor vehicle that is the property of the Ministry of Public Health.
According to Police Prosecutor Christopher Morris, the vehicle, which is an ambulance belonging to the ministry, was parked at the junction when Sookdeo ran up to it from behind with a piece of wood, which he used to lash the left side window and break it. He then ran away. The attack was reported and he was later apprehended by police.
After listening to the prosecutor, Sookdeo, who said he was homeless, told the court that he committed the act as a way to get back at the government. He was later sentenced to nine months in jail by Magistrate Bess, who told him that by damaging the vehicle he would not be getting back at the government as he wished to.
