Mohammed Shafeed, a fisherman, who admitted on Wednesday that he robbed a man of his Samsung cellular phone valued $20,000 and $1400 cash was sentenced to 36 months in jail.
Shafeed appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts where he confessed that on October 14, 2018, at Ramp Road, Greater Georgetown, while being in the company of another and armed with a knife, he robbed Rajendradat Seodat of his Samsung cellular phone and cash.
According to the facts presented to the court, on October 14, Seodat was walking along Ramp Road when the fisherman and another male rode up to him and asked for $200. While the victim was in the process of taking out the cash, Shafeed pulled a knife from his pants waist and pointed it at the victim. He, along with his accomplice, then relieved the victim of his cellular phone and cash. The matter was reported, and Shafeed was arrested. In a plea of mitigation, Shafeed told Magistrate Latchman that he did not know what led him to commit such an act.
“I ain’t know what get into my head; I never commit such an offence before, is the other guy who took away his phone and money and run away,” he said.
The man added that his ill mother depended on him as the main provider.
After listening to the fisherman’s plea, Magistrate Latchman jailed him for 36 months.
