Tanesha Mundle Thursday, March 06, 2014
A bag-juice vendor who stole four St Julian mangoes from off a tree was shown no mercy Tuesday and was slapped with a 30-day jail sentence.
"Unuh must stop it! A tired a it," Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey told 43-year-old Rohan Smith of Nelson Road in Kingston after sentencing him in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court.
Smith, who had pleaded guilty to praedial larceny, tried to worm his way out of the sentence after the magistrate told him that she was going to send him to prison for his actions.
"I didn't go ova him yard," Smith said, explaining that he had picked the mangoes from outside the premises.
"It nuh mek nuh difference. Yuh still thief di mangoes. Yuh think that is a defence?" Pusey asked. Added Pusey, " A man has to pay taxes for his property and should be able to enjoy what is planted on his premises."
Nelson was arrested on February 16 after the complainant saw him picking the mangoes at premises on Donhead Road, Kingston 6, and alerted a security guard who in turn notified a police officer. more
That's terrible yuh gonna sen di man a prison fi mango. Yuh know how much. Rapist and gun man etc out deh fi cetch.to the people dem weh own di mango tree may god. Continue fi bless unu goodly have mango a stone dog but can't stand fi si someone else enjoy them but fi send someone a prison fi mango they should be ashame a dem self fi report dat.
ReplyDeleteI hope that mango tree never bear any more fruit. I have a mango tree in my backyard back home and, I never once try to stop anyone from picking a couple and that tree never stop bearing some juicy sweet mangoes.
ReplyDeleteThe judge need to be remove... The judge is related to the devil.
ReplyDeleteI fully agree that praedial larceny is a major problem in our society however, could this man not have been given thirty (30) days community service instead? I am positive that rather than a custodial sentence which may leave his family more vulnerable than before he took the mangoes, the Kingston Public Hospital or the Golden Age Home in Vineyard Town could have utilised his services for cleaning or gardening for the thirty days. Our judges need to wake up and stop filling our prisons with 'hungry' people. We need to significantly increase the number of 'Community Service' sentences we hand down. If the individual absconds then custodial it is.
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