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Jan 27, 2011 News
…heads to jail for four years
“My worship please have mercy on me. I have my mother and father…please have leniency on me. I beg you to see with me” were words of Steve Mohamed of Kaneville Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, when acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry found him guilty of discharging a loaded firearm.
If the magistrate had any mercy she did not show it because she jailed him for four years.
According to the police report, on March 19, 2008, at Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara, Mohamed discharged a loaded firearm at Wendell Campbell with the intent to maim, disfigure, disable or caused him grievous bodily harm.
During the trial several witnesses testified. The accused was also given the opportunity of calling any witness on his behalf; he however failed to do so.
At his first court appearance at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, Mohamed pleaded not guilty.
During yesterday’s hearing, he pleaded with the magistrate to have mercy on him. The accused also challenged the court to prove that the warhead which was found in the victim’s house was indeed fired by him.
Nevertheless he was informed that the eyewitnesses had proved him guilty beyond reasonable doubt and that he, Mohamed, was the shooter on the day of the incident.
The court found him guilty and the Magistrate then enquired if he had anything to say before the sentence was imposed.
With tears in his eyes Mohamed begged the court for mercy and pity and to take into consideration that he had already spend a lengthy period behind bars.
Magistrate Beharry then told him that due to the seriousness of the offence bail was refused on his first court appearance.
With that, Mohammed was sent to spend the next four years in the Camp Street penitentiary.
His elderly father was present as the judgment was passed down.
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