A CONFESSED thief complained to Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo yesterday that the Headteacher of Rose Hall Primary School took a cutlass and chopped him on two fingers but the police failed failed to take him for medical treatment.

Imran Ally, of Belvedere Village, Corentyne, pleaded guilty to two counts of simple larceny committed on Cynthia Alexander and Alice Grimmond and was fined $20,000 with the alternative of six months imprisonment
Police Corporal Orin Grimmond, prosecuting, said the convict went to the Rose Hall School, from where he removed articles that belonged to members of the teaching staff.
Ally told the court that he had gone to the school to take his younger brother when he committed the act, and the headmistress chopped him.
Displaying the right palm of his hand to the court, he lamented that the police did not take him to see a doctor.
Ally claimed he lives with his mother and works at a lemonade factory but does not have money to pay the fine and requested some time.
When the magistrate told him she cannot give him time, he offered an apology before being escorted out of the courtroom.