“Poison” admits to robbery, jailed for 2 years

Sherwin “Poison” Pindar, a convicted felon of West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, now faces two years in prison after he confessed before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts to a charge of robbery brought against him on Friday morning.

Pindar was sentenced to Lot 12 Camp Street, Georgetown, after he plead guilty to the offence which stated that on March 8, 2017, at Hadfield Street, Werk-en-rust, Georgetown, while in the company of another, he relieved Donald Cummings of some $30,000 cash and during the course of the robbery used physical violence towards the victim.

Prosecutor Bharat Mangru related to the court on Friday that on the day in question, Pindar along with his accomplice approached Cummings and choked him, dealing him several blows in the process; before making good their escape with the aforementioned cash.

Mangru told the court that Pindar was previously convicted of a similar offence; in addition, he was committed to stand trial at the High Court in 2014 for the attempted murder of Carsdale Aaron, dating back to October 2013.

The Prosecutor had related that Aaron and Pindar had a dispute over a lost cellular, causing an aggravated Pindar to stab Aaron several times about his body with a knife. The victim was hospitalised for some time after the incident; subsequently losing a kidney as a direct result of his injuries.

According to reports, Pindar was also charged in April 2013 for chopping Clifton Lolawattie to his face for not sharing his stash of cocaine, and was in 2008 sentenced to one year in prison for the unlawful possession of ammunition.