Repeat offender Clifton Ramsarran, alias Witch, was on Friday sentenced to three years’ imprisonment after he confessed to having been previously charged with break-and-enter and larceny.

Ramsarran was making his second court appearance since the charge had been instituted against him. He said he was the sole bread winner for his family, and asked that the court look into the affairs of his two minor children.

As a result of his request, Probation and Welfare Officer, Ms. Judith Vankennie was ordered to intervene according to the convict’s request.

Before being sentenced, Ramsarran, responding to questions from the court, opted to have a sixteen-month sentence, but Police Sergeant Phillip Sherrif, prosecuting, requested a three-year sentence, informing the court that the defendant was a repeat offender who seemed not to have learnt his lesson.

On January 17 last, Ramsarran broke and entered the dwelling house of Shirley Chesney at Lot 90 Palmyra Village, East Canje Berbice, and stole in excess of $500,000 in cash and jewelry.

The Prosecutor, Police Sergeant Phillip Sheriff, had related to Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs Marcus that Ramsarran and his accomplices had removed the hinges from Chesney’s back door, and had stolen a gas bottle valued at $10,000, a BMX bicycle valued at $10,000, a quantity of bed sheets valued at $300,000, two CD players valued at $45,000, one DVD player valued at $30,000, a quantity of jewelry valued at $100,000, and a blender valued at $10,000, booty totalling $505,000.

Sheriff noted that most of the items had been recovered in an adjoining empty plot of land at Palmyra Village which Ramsarran would frequent. The Prosecutor said it was Ramsarran who provided information that led to the arrest of the siblings Alvin and Ravin Samaroo, who are expected to return to court on February 27 for statements and fixture of their case.