Trio on armed robbery charges get bail

Three men were yesterday accused of committing a pair of armed robberies.

Mortimer John, a carpenter, of Lot 16 Tucville Drive, South Ruimveldt, Terry Phillips, a labourer, also of the same address, and Gavin Lovell, a miner, were jointly charged with two counts of armed robbery, for which they were placed on $75,000 bail at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

It is alleged that on August 28, armed with a knife, they robbed Teneshia Garnett of a