KEVIN Lenard (no address given) was yesterday sentenced to 24 months imprisonment after he was found guilty of robbery under arms . 

According to the charge on September 15 at High Street, Georgetown, being together with another and armed with a knife, he robbed Brian Harry of $G15,000 in cash.
The facts stated that on the day in question around 04:00 hrs, a dark- skinned man wearing a white cap grabbed him and placed a knife to his belly. The defendant then removed cash from the victim’s pants pocket.
Later, the defendant saw Mr. Harry and two friends at the West Ruimveldt Front Road bus park, in the vicinity of Footsteps’ store and he managed to join a minibus and evade Mr. Harry and his friends. As it turned out, the evasion was short- lived, since the minibus driver drove the said minibus to Brickdam Police station.
The court heard that at the Police station, Mr. Harry reported the incident and identified the convict as his attacker.
In his defence, the unrepresented man chose to give an unsworn statement and declined to call witnesses.
In passing sentence, Magistrate Latchman said he had considered factors such as the nature and prevalence of the offence and the need to deter the convict and others from committing such offences in future.