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May 24, 2009 News
A Rose Hall, Berbice man who earlier this year was sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment for killing a school teacher was given an additional 12-year sentence after he was found guilty on three counts of robbery under arms.
Rondel Harris, 29, was sent to prison in January after he pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter for killing school teacher and University of Guyana student, Saisenarine Ramnauth on June 7, 2003.
But on Thursday a jury directed by Justice Diana Insanally at the Berbice High Court convicted him of three counts of robbery under arms committed on the same day.
Attorney at Law Ganesh Hira prosecuting for the state told the court that on the day in question between 6.30 pm and 7 pm, Harris along with two other men Alfred Lewis and Brentnol Bascom had entered the Sain Supermarket at Williamsburg, Corentyne, Berbice where they robbed co-owner Bibi Zafena Ally of $400,000 and a pair of gold bangles.
The men then robbed customer Indra Moonalall, and her daughter, of cash and jewellery totaling $55,000.
They made good their escape in Ramnauth’s car and subsequently shot him in the back of his head.
Harris was sentenced to four years on each on the three counts, which Justice Inshanally ordered run concurrently.
Harris’s co-accused, Alfred Lewis, 26, was last month jailed for a total of 19 years by Justice Inshanally when he appeared before her at the Berbice High and pleaded guilty to the lesser count of Manslaughter and three counts of robbery under arms.
She had sentenced him to 10 years on the manslaughter charge and three years each on the robbery under arms charges.
Those sentences will also run concurrently.
The men who had earlier pleaded not guilty to the capital offence of murder were positively identified.
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