A MOTHER of three was ordered to pay $100,000 compensation after she was found guilty of stealing gold jewellery.

Renetha Barton of Angoy’s Avenue, had initially denied a charge of larceny from a dwelling house, on her appearance before Magistrate Sherdel Marcus-Isaacs at the New Amsterdam Magistrates Court, on Tuesday.
However, Candayce Adams, the virtual complainant (VC), narrated that she was at home on Saturday, September 27, 2014,when the defendant visited and asked for something to eat.
She was allowed to make some bakes. But afterwards, the defendant requested clothing, and the complainant invited her into the bedroom where pieces of garments were handed over.
While they were in the bedroom, Adams noticed that her gold jewellery and pieces of raw gold were at the bed head.
However minutes later, the valuables went missing and she enquired of the visitor if she had removed the articles.
Barton became annoyed after being questioned, and asked whether she was a thief, before running out of the house and into the yard, where she was accosted by the VC. An altercation ensued, during which Barton was seen removing the valuables from her underwear.
Adams managed to retrieve some of the stolen property, but pieces of the raw gold she was unable to recover.
Meanwhile, the defendant in a fit of passion, ran  into Adams’s home and returned with a knife which she brandished, threatening to injure the woman, who in turn fled  with her jewels tightly clenched in her fist.
Thereafter the  police were summoned, and Barton was subsequently arrested.
At the New Amsterdam Court, the complainant expressed pity for the defendant and was not inclined for the court to impose a custodial penalty.
She was nevertheless willing to accept the compensation.