A 21-year-old guard accused of stealing a flat-screen television from the squash bar of the Georgetown Club was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $200,000 when he appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
It is alleged that on July 29 at Georgetown, Jason Mendonza of 68 Cross and Leopold streets, broke and entered the squash bar of the Georgetown Club and stole one flat-screen television valued $392,800, property of the said Georgetown Club.
The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge of break and enter and larceny when it was read to him by the Magistrate.
Attorney-at-law Paul Fung-A-Fat who represented the defendant told the court that on the day in question, his client who is a security guard stationed at the Georgetown Club, summoned the police after realising that a window and door had been broken and the television was missing.
“Unfortunately,” Fung-A-Fat said, the police later arrested and charged his client.
The lawyer then made an application for his client to be admitted to reasonable bail on the grounds that he poses no risk of flight, has a fixed place of abode, has no previous antecedents and has been lending his full support to the police in their investigations.
Police Prosecutor Munilall Seetaram in giving the facts of the case however, stated that on the day in question, after the police had arrived on the scene to conduct their investigations, they found the accused’s fingerprints.
The prosecution had no objection to the bail application made by the attorney.
Mendonza was subsequently ordered to return to court on September 3.
