Man Sentenced To 10 Days For Stealing Baygon
Appearing in Magistrates Court this morning [June 3], a 61-year-old man was sentenced to ten days in prison for stealing a case of Baygon from Marketplace.
Mr Steven Pitt received the sentence for stealing a case of Baygon, valued at $47, from the Marketplace Store on Church Street on 10th May 2015.
The Crown Prosecutor told Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo that Mr Pitt lived at a Salvation Army shelter.
The Magistrate asked Mr Pitt: “Why a case of Baygon? Were you fighting an insect war?”
Mr Pitt shrugged his shoulders and made no reply.
Commenting that Mr Pitt’s last appearance in Court had resulted in a Conditional Discharge but that it was preceded by a string of similar stealing offences, the Magistrate rejected Duty Counsel’s recommendation of a Conditional Discharge, took note of the Duty Counsel’s observation that the unemployed man would not be in a position to pay a fine, and handed down the ten day prison sentence.
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