GAVIN Hickeson and Orin McKenzie who robbed a Queen’s College student of his Blackberry cell phone after attacking him with a cutlass a month ago, will each be spending the next four years in prison after they were found guilty before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry last Thursday for robbery under arms.

Prosecutor Bharat Mangru told the court that the two accused on October 5 at Water Street, while being armed with a cutlass, robbed Queen’s College student Danraj Baljit of a Blackberry cell phone valued at $30,000. The facts read that Baljit was walking along Water Street with two of his cousins when the two defendants approached them with a cutlass and told them to “pass it” and they took the phone.
Prosecutor Mangru said that a police officer in plain clothes saw what had transpired and went to their rescue, giving chase behind the two accused. The prosecutor also stated that McKenzie who was armed with the cutlass attacked the policeman and he was shot in his right leg. Both men were subsequently arrested and charged.
At the trial at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, Hickeson, who resides at 185 Pike Street, Kitty and McKenzie of Cooper Street, Albouystown, were found guilty and the magistrate remarked that the men had shown no remorse for the robbery. She also took into consideration that Baljit’s attackers were positively identified by the schoolboys.