2 vendors jailed after pleading guilty to crimes committed in Sophia

Two Georgetown vendors were on Friday sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to separate offences committed in ‘A’ Field South Sophia, Greater Georgetown earlier this week.
Anthony Omali Clarke, a 26-year-old vendor from William Street, Kitty, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment after admitting to the charge of Attempt to Commit a Felony.
Clarke was arrested on Tuesday, following an incident that occurred on May 18, in which 33-year-old welder Joshua Kumar of South Sophia was the intended victim.

He appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Abigail Gibbs, where the charge was read to him. Clarke pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced.
In a separate case, Elson Figueira, a 24-year-old vendor of Lot 1070 Cummings Park, Sophia, received a three-year prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to Robbery Under Arms.
The charge stemmed from a May 18 attack on 22-year-old Nurse Assistant Henryanna Sumner, also of South Sophia. Figueira was arrested on Thursday, May 22, by ranks from the Turkeyen Police Station.
He, too, appeared before Magistrate Gibbs at the Sparendaam Court, where he entered a guilty plea and was sentenced.