Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday sentenced a teenaged boy to three years imprisonment after he admitted to having 52 grammes of cannabis for trafficking.
Terrence Henry, 18, and his mother Pamela Eadie, of Craig, East Bank Demerara, were jointly charged and remanded to prison on their first appearance at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys.
Yesterday, Henry took the ‘rap’ for the offence and changed his plea to guilty while his mother, who had pleaded not guilty on her first appearance, was granted $75,000 bail.
According to the facts of the case on January 5, at Georgetown, the police, acting on information, went to the home of the accused and found the drugs inside of a purse on a table and on Eadie.
Their attorney, Lance Ferreira, told the court that Henry was accepting responsibility and requested bail for Eadie.
Henry was fined $10,000 together with the sentence. Eadie was ordered to appear at court on March 12.
