A pregrant commercial sex worker was Tuesday refused bail by Magistrate Annette Singh for armed robbery and larceny from the person charges. Nineteen-year-old Tamika Kennedy appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates Court and refused to plead to two charges, one of which said that on Sunday, March 15, 2015 at Georgetown, being in company with others and armed with a knife, she robbed Troy Roberts of $25,000 in cash.
Particulars of the other charge said on the same day at Georgetown, she stole from Roberts one Samsung Galaxy cellular phone valued $80,000.
Kennedy sat in the dock and used abusive language to the police present in court when they spoke to her. When the orderly called for the court to rise, the woman refused to stand. However, as the magistrate read the charges, Kennedy did not plead to either of the two charges. As a result of her behavior, the matter was stood down and recalled later.
The charge was read to the unrepresented woman in the afternoon session and again she refused to enter a plea for both offences. But when Magistrate Singh read the larceny from person charge, Kennedy responded, “Wah Samsung Galaxy is a Chinese phone.”
Since Kennedy did not answer to either of the charges, a not guilty plea was entered for both.
According to the prosecution, on the day in question around 23:00 hrs, Roberts was walking towards High Street, making his way to his brother’s home. At the time he was carrying his cellular phone charger in his hand along with his Samsung Galaxy cellular phone and cash in his pants pocket.
Kennedy approached Roberts and asked him to do business. As they were walking together, she snatched his phone charger and returned it, so he thought she was just joking. A short while after, she snatched his phone from his pocket, ran to a distance and made a call from the said phone, after which a male rode up on a bicycle and snatched Roberts’s pocket.
The male suspect then asked Kennedy for an ice pick; however, he took out a knife, placed it to the victim’s neck and relieved him of the cash. They both made good their escape and the matter was reported to the police.
Police Corporal Adduni Inniss, prosecuting, successfully opposed bail on the grounds that the unemployed woman has no fixed place of abode and if granted bail, she may not return for trial.
The prosecution’s objection was upheld and the matter was put off to March 31, for statements.
As Kennedy was being escorted out of the courtroom, she spat in Roberts’s face as she passed him before telling him he would never get back anything.