BlackBerry robber wanted to be debt-free

Leon Fredericks, accused of robbing a man of a BlackBerry at knife-point, on Thursday admitted to the crime, saying he needed money to clear a debt.

A scrap metal labourer, Fredericks, 21, of Lot 6 McDoom, East Bank Demerara, had been remanded on Wednesday by Magistrate Faith McGusty on an armed robbery charge.

Prosecutor Winneth Hubbard said that on October 13, in