Kitty man gets 12 months for break and enter

MARK Mangal of Lot 200 Barr Street, Kitty, Georgetown, was sentenced on Thursday to 12 months imprisonment by Magistrate Fabayo Azore for committing a break and enter offence at David Street, also in Kitty.
He made his first appearance in court before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on September 30, 2013 and pleaded not guilty to the charge that said on September 26 at David Street, Kitty, Georgetown, he broke and entered the dwelling house of Paul Booker and stole a quantity of electrical items together valued $740,000.Police Corporal Renetta Bentham, prosecuting, said Booker secured his home and went out and upon his return, he saw that his window had been opened and after conducting a search he noticed the items missing. On the same day also, the defendant and another individual were seen in the complainant’s yard fetching out the items.
Magistrate Azore told Mangal that she believed the facts related by the prosecution beyond any reasonable doubt and therefore found him guilty as charged for the break and enter offence.
However, Mangal maintained that he was innocent and married with two children and could not believe that he was sentenced to serve a jail term for something he did not do.