Homeless man gets nine months in jail for damaging ambulance

Vishnu Sookdeo

Vishnu Sookdeo, a homeless man who claimed he broke the window of an ambulance to get back at the government, was yesterday sentenced to nine months in jail.

Sookdeo, 33, was arraigned before Magistrate Dylon Bess at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, where he pleaded guilty to a damage to property charge.

The charge states that on November 12th, at Brickdam and Cornhill Street, Georgetown, Sookdeo damaged a window of a motor vehicle that is the property of the Ministry of Public Health.