TWENTY-year-old Adrian English of Lot 538 ‘C’ Field, Sophia was Tuesday sentenced to two years’ imprisonment by City Magistrate Ann McLennan on a break-and-enter and larceny charge committed on the dwelling house of Onel Maxwell at William Street Campbellville between July 8 and 9, from where he stole a quantity of items to the value of $370,000.English pleaded guilty after the Administration of Justice Act (AJA) was applied to the charge. The items he stole were: two flat screen television sets worth $220,000; two gas bottles worth $20,000; two microwave ovens worth $80,000; one perfume worth $35,000; two jars of skin cream worth $3,000; two bottles of shampoo and conditioner worth $5,000; and a modem worth $7,000.
The prosecution’s facts are that on July 8, Maxwell secured his home and left to conduct business in Georgetown. Upon his return on July 9, he noticed the door of the lower flat of his house broken, and when he entered the home, he discovered the said articles missing.

An investigation was launched when the matter was reported to the police, and fingerprints were uplifted at the crime scene which, when analysed, matched the prints of the said defendant.

And when he was called in for questioning, under caution he admitted to breaking into the said home along with an accomplice named ‘Fowl’.
Prosecutor Deniro Jones explained that some of the items were recovered at the home of English, who, in 2010, had been incarcerated for three years for a matter similar in nature.

Standing from the prisoner dock in shackles, the accused explained that he was not the one who had broken into the home, but it was a man named ‘Fowl’, who called him to collect some of the articles.

English noted that he was called out from his home by the alleged ‘Fowl’ to come and collect some ‘items’. He explained that when he got to the house, it had already been broken into, and he took every other thing except the two microwave ovens and the television sets, which ‘Fowl’ had promised to uplift in the morning.

The magistrate, in her sentencing, lectured English that he, bring previously convicted, should have known better. And she expressed hope that the sentence he was getting would rehabilitate him.