Barbados – Director of Public Prosecutions in Barbados Charles Leacock have urged Barbadians to play their part in preventing burglaries.
Leacock was speaking in the No.5 Supreme Court during the trial of 17 year old Shaquile O'Neal Borman of Quarry Road, Bank Hall, who is charged with breaking into 30 homes within a six month span.
In some instances, said Leacock, doors were shut but not locked while in many cases windows were left open for ventilation, giving Borman easy access into homes.
None of the property from any of the homes were recovered.
"All of the crimes were opportunistic.In one case, a woman went to bed and left the keys in the door on the outside so all he had to do was to turn the key and enter the house" Leacock said
In another case case,a woman was under the mistaken impression that her husband had locked the doors and secured the windows and as a result did not check the house.
That the DPP said turned out to be a "flawed assumption"because the keys were left outside in the lock.
"I am not condoning his violation,but homeowners also have a duty to themselves to be more vigilant, said Leacock
