Eighteen-year-old Randy Smartt of South Road, Lacytown, Georgetown, and his 26-year-old alleged accomplice Niants Daniels, a mechanic of Werk-en-rust, Georgetown, appeared before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus on Wednesday, charged jointly for the offence of robbery.
The charge stated that on March 29,2020, at Georgetown, they stole one cellular phone valued $51,000 and $15,000 cash, property of Daniel Rawlins.
In court, the young men told the Magistrate that they were on a bicycle when the first defendant (Smartt) fell off the cycle and its handle accidentally hit the victim, who was nearby.
The defendants claimed that in retaliation, the victim pulled out a knife from his pants pocket and began threatening them, which caused them to run and then crash into a Police rank.
However, according to the Prosecution’s case, the Virtual Complainant was on his way home when the duo, who were riding a bicycle, suddenly approached him. It was then that the defendants took away the man’s belongings and attempted to run away, but instead bumped into a Police rank, who arrested them after the victim raised an alarm.
Both men were remanded to prison. They are expected to make another appearance at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on April 22, 2020.
