FORTY-seven-year-old Hugh Cort, a porter of Lot 116 South Ruimveldt Park, Georgetown, was yesterday sentenced to two years’ imprisonment by City Magistrate Ann McLennan after he pleaded guilty to a break-and-enter and larceny charge.Details of the offence are that, between July 15 and 16, Cort broke and entered the store of Gordon Saul, and stole a quantity of clothing to the total value of $858,000.

Police Prosecutor Deniro Jones told the court that Saul’s boutique is located at Lime and Bent Streets in Georgetown, and that the entire ordeal of the breakage was captured on a CCTV camera, with the footage clearly identifying the defendant as perpetrator.

The court heard that Cort was later arrested at a home in Hadfield Street which had also been broken and entered, and that he was subsequently taken to the Alberttown Police Station, where he was identified as the perpetrator of the breakage.

Moreover, Cort was even clad in a pair of pants and a jersey that had been stolen from Saul’s boutique.

Police prosecutor Jones informed the court that the convict had previously served a year’s sentence on a similar offence.