After violent robbery…
TWO women and four men appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday, on a joint robbery with violence charge.

Esmond Baptiste, 26, of Lot 4145 North Ruimveldt, Sherwin Clarke, 17, of Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara, Junior Dover, 26, of Mahdia, Potaro, Jermaine Burnett, 26, of Lot 74 La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara, Tressa Johnson, 19, of Lot 181 Prospect, also on East Bank Demerara and Allison Nedd, 20, of Lot 33 Campbellville Housing Scheme, Georgetown, all pleaded not guilty.

It is alleged that, on November 27, at Regent and King Streets, in the city, they robbed Dexter Daly of a gold ring, a cellular phone and cash, making a total loss, to him, of $38,000 and, at the time or immediately before or after, used personal violence.

Police Inspector Stephen Telford, prosecuting, said the four men, initially, gave different home addresses to the ones they told the Court.

According to the Prosecutor, the females would first get their victims under control after which the males would arrive on the scene.

Telford said all Daly’s belongings were recovered in a room where all the defendants were present.

Clarke, Baptiste, Nedd and Johnson were put on $60,000 bail each while Dover and Burnett were remanded to prison.

Clarke had said he is a current student of the Government Technical Institute (GTI) and recently completed a three-year sentence for simple larceny.

Burnett said he knew nothing about the allegation but was arrested when he went to a High Street, Georgetown, hotel for a sexual purpose.

Baptiste said he shares a common law relationship with Nedd, who said she had gone to White Castle Fish Shop with the other defendants and, after they left there, Dover lashed Daly with a piece of wood and robbed him.

Daly confirmed what Nedd related and said Dover and Burnett are the ones who actually robbed him.
The case will be called again on December 17.