A MAN hired to install cable boxes in homes helped himself to the family jewels while working at a house in Williamsville last week. For the crime, Scott Benny went to prison yesterday for nine months.
At 9 .m. on October 21, the victim secured three gold rings together valued $15,000 at his Williamsville home. He returned 15 minutes later to find the items missing. The victim had contracted Benny to install a cable box at his home, and Benny was left alone in the victim’s bedroom, prosecutor Cleyon Seedan said.
Two days later the defendant was met at the Gasparillo police station and was told of the report made by the victim. He told officer Lee Lum that he had the rings in Couva. He later took the police to bushy area in Mc Bean, Couva where the jewellery was retrieved.
The rings were shown to Wellington during Benny’s court appearance on Monday. Attorney Ainsley Lucky pleaded for leniency for his client saying that he stole to be able to feed his child.
He said Benny, 24 of Carapichaima who had no previous convictions, was married and had a two-year-old child. “He yielded to temptation and took the rings to sell them to purchase food for his child
But Wellington said that his client did not go into the refrigerator but rather stole the rings. He said that Benny was trusted enough to be left in the house. “The man is a thief,” Wellington said. He sentenced him to nine months in prison.
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