BV man gets 56 months for knife-point stick-up

Wendell Austin will be spending the next 56 months in jail after he was found guilty of a knife-point hold-up.

Austin, 21, of 134 Canterbury Walk, Beterver-wagting, East Coast of Demerara, maintained his innocence when initially arraigned on the charge of armed robbery.

It was alleged that he and others, on January 4, at Longden Street, Georgetown, robbed Kishan Persaud of