TWENTY-eight-year-old Orandy McClean, also known as ‘Limpy’, A tout of Brush Dam, Buxton, East Coast Demerara, appeared Tuesday before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry charged with simple larceny.Particulars of the charge detailed that on April 8 at Water Street, Georgetown, he stole one Samsung Galaxy S5 cellular phone valued $185,000, property of Nalinie Moonsammy.

Represented by Attorney-at-law Mr. Paul Fung-a-fat, Mc Clean denied the charge; and his attorney told the court that Moonsammy had left her phone in the bus, and when she returned and discovered it missing, she had accused him of stealing it.

Police Prosecutor Bharat Mangru did not object to bail, and the magistrate put Mc Clean on $50,000 bail.

The matter has been transferred before Magistrate Annette Singh for report and fixtures on April 20.