THIRTY-four-year-old Anthony Layne of Angoy’s Avenue, on the eastern fringes of New Amsterdam, was recently granted $75,000 bail on a charge of larceny from the person after he appeared before New Amsterdam Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs Marcus.
Particulars of his offence state that on September 5 last, at Strand Road in New Amsterdam, he stole a gold chain valued $200,000 from pensioner Zulika Ali.
However, reports have revealed that on the day in question, the defendant, riding a bicycle, snatched the yellow metal chain from around the pensioner’s neck.
Ali had reported that the artificial chain had been purchased a week prior to the incident at a cost of $1000.
The matter is fixed for statements on November 27.