Repeat offender jailed for robbing doubles vendor

SENTENCES amounting to twelve and a half years were handed down to a man charged with five offences, including robbing two doubles vendors at gunpoint.
Ketama Henry, 28, was found with the gun, ten minutes after the robbery, standing on the compound of a building under construction. At 10.30 a.m. last Wednesday, two doubles vendors were conducting sales at the corner of Sutton and Irving Streets, San Fernando when Henry who was armed with a firearm and in company of another person, announced a hold-up. The victims handed over a total of $3,000 and their assailants escaped.
Ten minutes later, officers who went to the scene and made their way to Rushworth Street, to a building under construction. They spotted Henry walking down the step, prosecutor Cleyon Seedan said. He was searched and a pistol was found tucked in the right side of his pants waist. The magazine contained 12 rounds of 9mm ammunition. “In the breach of the firearm, an officer found one live round of ammunition,” Seedan said. Henry admitted he was not the holder of the relevant documents to be in possession of the gun and ammunition.
When he was taken to the San Fernando Criminal Investigations Department, Henry was pointed out by the doubles vendors as the man who robbed them. He admitted to the police that he did and he was “really sorry.”