A minibus driver was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment yesterday after he pleaded guilty to the theft of two toilet bowls.

Colin Miller told Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle that he stole the toilet bowls and a toilet tank to sell them so he could get money to renew his driver’s licence which had expired recently.  
 
The 36-year-old man of Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara stole the items last Sunday from a building at 220 Camp Street which is owned by Ahmad Sankar.

Douglas Hutson representing Sankar in court yesterday told the magistrate that Miller went into the building after he had apparently removed the air-conditioning unit off the wall outside of the building. Miller denied this. He said that some ply boards at the side of the building had fallen off after they got soaked by the rain and he went into the building through the space that was left. 

Hutson also said that the man left the pipes running on the second flat of the building causing the entire upstairs to flood and the bottom flat ceiling was damaged.

After telling Miller that he needed to work for money and not steal to get it, Magistrate Robertson–Ogle sentenced him to 18 months imprisonment.