A 26-year-old clothes vendor, on Monday, June 24, 2019, confessed to a simple larceny charge when he appeared before Principal Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus because he was frustrated and needed “milk money” to give his child’s mother.

Jason Thomas called “Curl up” of Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, appeared before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and opted to plead guilty, since he did not want to waste the court’s time.

Thomas admitted that, on June 22, 2019, at Regent and Wellington Streets, Georgetown, he stole a $120,000 gold band from Clairann Rambarran.

The man told the court “I got two children and I was so frustrated when I woke up the morning my child’s mother called and said she would summons me if I don’t get milk money by the afternoon.”

According to information presented in court by Police Prosecutor Adduni Inniss, on the day in question, the victim was crossing the intersection of Regent and Wellington Streets, when Thomas walked up beside her and pulled the gold band off her right hand.

An alarm was raised, and police on patrol nearby apprehended Thomas. He was searched and the gold band was recovered in his pants pocket.

” Everyone makes mistakes in life… She get back her gold band,” Thomas told the Magistrate.

The Magistrate Isaacs-Marcus adjourned the matter until July 8, 2019 for sentencing and Thomas was remanded to prison.