Nineteen-year-old Earl Grant and twenty-nine-year-old Nigel Dundas were taken before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday to answer to a charge of robbery which was committed following a traffic accident.
The charge stated that Nigel Dundas and Earl Grant on Tuesday April 4 at 08:20 hours, stole a Samsung Notebook valued at $175,000, an iPhone 7 valued at $170,000, a Samsung phone valued $15,000 and $55,000 cash, all property of Joseph Innis.
The duo, Grant, of Lot 33 Tucville Squatting Area, East La Penitence, Georgetown, and Dundas a labourer of Lot 4 B Tucville, Georgetown, were not required to plead.
The particulars of this offence state both defendants who are known to each other, were riding a motorcycle when they were hit by a car driven by a female. As a result of the accident, the female driver called her husband, Joseph Innis, via cellphone with the intention of compensating the accused for the damage to the motorcycle. When Innis arrived, he exited his car with a brown leather pouch in his right hand containing the aforementioned articles listed in the charge. He then approached the scene where the defendants and his wife were standing and a conversation started.
It was then Dundas snatched the pouch from Innis’s hand, and both Grant and Dundas proceeded to run away. In doing so they jumped a fence and drain causing Dundas to sustain injuries to his right arm. He later dropped the pouch and they both escaped.
Innis later went to the East La Penitence Police Station to report the matter and observed both Dundas and Grant at the station and so pointed them out to the police. They were both told of their offences which they denied and were taken into police custody. Innis was given his pouch containing the articles.
Both Dundas and Grant were granted $20,000 bail each and as a condition were ordered to visit the Brickdam Police Station every other Friday until the completion of this matter.
The case has been adjourned to April 26.
