“Your worship I din escape. De officer at de prison open de gate fuh let me fuh pass through,” said Theon Smith who will spend the next 15 years in prison for a number offences he had committed between August and October.

The 18-year-old Annandale, East Coast Demerara resident pleaded guilty to 13 counts of robbery under arms, escape from lawful custody, break and enter and larceny and attempt to commit a felony when Magistrate Melissa Robertson read the charges to him yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Some of the VCs in the robbery under arms matters where in some cases he used a gun and in others a knife were  Sheliza Boswick, Tiffany Johnson, Niketa Hussein, Shannon McLennon, Leah Ping, Shelon August, Jullian Charles, Sandra Ramsarran, Sonia Jupiter, Natasha Nandalall, Nicola Persaud, Janelle Andrews and Vineta Ramchan.

“Your honour I din commit dem offences. But I ain’t get a lawyer so I gon just plead guilty to all ah dem cause I ain’t want to be in de court so steady.”

Some of the business places he was accused of robbing are Multi Tech Lab at New Market Street; Games Shop Arcade at City Mall; a games shop at Albert Street, Alberttown; Munchkins at Lamaha Street; Rainbow Fashions at Camp and Bent streets; Genesis Pet Shop at North Road, Bourda; Tasha Intimate Bath and Body Boutique at Barr Street, Kitty; and Simply Gorgeous at Station Street, Kitty.

When the prison time Smith should be spending was calculated, it totalled 61 years. However, the magistrate ordered that all the sentences which Smith had received would run concurrently so he would only spend 15 years in prison.