CHARLESTOWN teenagers Leroy Forde (18) and Joshua Collins were on Tuesday jailed by Georgetown Magistrate Dylon Bess on two counts of armed robbery after a probation report

was read in court.

The two Georgetown teens were jointly charged with two counts of robbery under arms, and were found guilty at the conclusion of their trial on December 4. They were also found guilty of robbing Kendal Short of his $19,000 Blu cellphone while being armed with a gun on September 26 at Bishop Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown.

That aside, the teens were found guilty of robbing Andrew Nurse of his Toyota Premio motor car, valued at $2.5M, on the same day and at the same location mentioned in the abovestated charge.

Forde was sentenced to 48 months on each charge, while Joshua Collins was sentenced to 36 months on each charge. The sentence will, however, run concurrently.

The magistrate based his ruling on the testimonies given by the two accused and two witnesses who said they had seen the teens with guns during the robbery. He also considered the testimonies of two police witnesses who had tracked down Nurse’s hijacked car and had arrested the two teens inside after a high-speed chase.

Collins had called his mother to testify on his behalf as a witness, but the woman could not provide the court with key evidence regarding her son’s whereabouts on the day in question.

Forde had called a friend to provide an alibi that he had been with her on the day in question. However, the witness’s testimony was deemed “inconsistent and incredible” by the magistrate. According to reports, Nurse had, on September 26, stepped out of his vehicle to visit his mechanic in Bishop Street; and as he returned to his car, he felt a gun being pressed to his head, and he was shoved aside as the two men grabbed his keys and made off with the vehicle.

The next day, police acting on information arrested the two bandits in the East La Penitence area with the stolen car. The bandits had, however, changed the number plates of the car, but the owner identified his vehicle by the engine and chassis numbers. The men had also been pointed out during an identification parade.