Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle last week sentenced a handyman, who stole a digital camera worth $100,000 from his employer, to two years imprisonment when he appeared before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Harris Gouveia, 39, of Garnett and Middleton streets, Campbellville pleaded guilty to the charge of simple larceny when it was read to him.

On July 27 the man stole a Sony digital camera worth $100,000, property of his employer Nalini Singh.
The defendant told the court that on the day in question Singh asked him to wash her car. He said that he saw the camera and he took it and later sold it for $2,000.

Singh told the court that the man had been working with her for almost two years and she would normally feed him three meals every day.

The magistrate told the defendant that the offence carried a three-year sentence. However, she sentenced him to two years for the two years that he was fed by his employer. “The woman has fed you for two years and this is how you repay her?” Magistrate Ogle asked the defendant.