TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD farmers, Leon Waddle, was on Friday sentenced to 18 months in imprisonment by City Magistrate Sunil Scarce on a break and enter and larceny charge committed on the store room of Shiduik Mohammad Edun at Kuru Kururu between July 3 and 4, 2017 from where he stole a quantity of items to the value of $951,000.

Waddle pleaded guilty after the Administration of Justice Act (AJA) was applied to the charge.

The items he stole were: one water pump, one pressure washer, one gas engine and sixty trays of eggs. The prosecution’s facts are that on July 3, Edun secured his store room leaving everything intact. When he returned the following day he noticed the western door was tampered and he discovered the said articles missing.

An investigation was launched when the matter was reported to the police, who went to the house of the defendant and the items were found there. The items were positively identified by Edun. When Waddle was told of the allegation he said that he would buy the items back.