SECURITY guard, 36-year-old Leroy Holder of Lot 25 D’Urban Street, Werk-en-Rust was on Wednesday sentenced to 24 months imprisonment and fined G$1M for removing the original number plates on a vehicle and replacing them with incorrect ones.

Holder, who appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman, was found guilty of the offence, which, according to the particulars, occurred on July 5, 2013 at Camp Street, Georgetown, when the original number plate PNN 8438 was deliberately and dishonestly removed and replaced with PNN 5637.
According to the prosecution’s case, on the day in question at about 15:30hrs, Holder was arrested by the police as a suspect in a robbery when the ranks made checks on the documents for the car and noticed that the vehicle had a fake number plate.
Prosecutor Joel Ricknauth told the told court that the defendant was driving motor car PNN 5687 behind a red SUV from Kitty public road through several streets and eventually stopped at a gas station where he was arrested.
Holder was represented by Attorney-at-Law, Basil Williams.
During trial, the prosecutor had called on four witnesses to prove the case against Holder.
The magistrate, in her ruling, said that the Court needs to send a strong message against such a practice, and noted that police ranks depend on number plates in the fight against crime. She then sentenced Holder to a minimum of one year imprisonment, along with a fine of G$1M.