GOWAKAN Ganesh, 37, was yesterday fined $25,000 with the alternative of nine months imprisonment for shoplifting.

The defendant (no address given) appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson and pleaded guilty.

Particulars of the offence said, on October 2, he stole five bottles of baby oil, priced at $5,565, from DDL Cash and Carry Supermarket in Georgetown.

The thief told the Court he wanted money to travel home and took the merchandise to sell it.

Police Sergeant Kevin London, prosecuting, said Ganesh went into the business place and was seen by a security guard concealing the bottles in his pants.

Ganesh was searched outside and found with the booty after being captured on camera in the act of taking the items.