MAGISTRATE Faith McGusty, on Friday December 27, 2019, sentenced a man to two years in prison on an attempt to commit a felony charge.
Akeem Ishmael appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and pleaded guilty, with explanation, to the charge.

Particulars of the charge stated that, on December 23, 2019, at High and Hadfield Streets, Georgetown, while armed with a knife, he attempted to rob Jose Tamblante.
“I have a one-year-old child and I had $15,000 and it finish so I got frustrated and go to rob the man. I push my hand in his pocket but I didn’t get anything,” Ishmael said.

Tamblante, through an interpreter, said that, “I was in town doing some shopping and when I was going to the park I feel like someone push their hand in my pocket. When I turn I saw him and I hold on his hand and he pull out a knife from his waist and we had a fight”.
Police Prosecutor Sanj Singh told the court that, during the fight the two men fell to the ground and police on patrol intervened.

Magistrate McGusty, after listening to the men, told Ishmael Season’s Greetings and sentenced him to two years in prison.
Ishmael, upon hearing his sentence, begged for mercy and told the court that the mother of his child was unemployed and he was the breadwinner.