Rasbert Turner, Star Writer
Spanish Town
A man who robbed a couple plead guilty and was sentenced to two years hard labour in the Spanish Town resident Magistrate's Court.
Ryan McKay, 26, of Central Village, St. Catherine, opened his mouth wide when RM. Lorna Errar said: "Sir you are sentenced to two years hard labour".
The court heard that on January 22 this year, one of the complainants was standing at a bus stop along the Mandela Highway awaiting her boyfriend when McKay and another man rode up to her on a bicycle and started to accuse her of being someone that had a business transaction with him.
The men use knives to rob her of a Razr cell phone and $1,000. The boyfriend then called the woman and at knife point she was ordered to tell him to come now. When he went, he too was robbed of two cell phones and his gold chain.
They were threatened by the men before they rode off on the bicycle and both complainants saw a police vehicle shortly after and told the policemen of their plight. The men were accosted by a police party shortly afterward, one ran into bushes, but McKay was found with a black bag containing all that were robbed from the two persons.
He plead guilty in court.
"A mi and the man ina business, Your Honour. And mi jus go up to him and seh a the first mi a see yuh from them time deh and then mi tek the chain but mi never use no knife," he told the RM who explained to him that once he used force or fear it is enough. He was subsequently sentenced.
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