Bridgetown.
Julian Orlando "Big" Zeus" Hunte the man accused of robbing two British visitors last week, received a tongue lashing from Chief Magistrate Pamela Beckles yesterday.
Beckles chastisement came after Hunte, 28 of Rices,St Philip pleaded guilty to 15 of the 53 charges when he appeared in the Ostins Magistrates' Court.
Noting that the court was limited in the amount of jail time it could impose for such crimes, the magistrate stressed to the young man the seriousness of burglary. She told him it was one of those crimes that affected people for the rest of their lives and caused many victims to “look under their beds” long after the offence had taken place.
Hunte faced 38 counts of burglary, one count of aggravated burglary, four counts of serious bodily harm (two pertains to the shooting of the tourists. One count of theft, one count of escaping lawful custody. One count of possession of a firearm without a valid licence. One count of illegal possession of nine rounds of ammunition and one count of arson.
He pleaded guility to 15 of the offences committed with the jurisdiction of the Oistins Magistrates' Court and was sentenced to three years for those offences.
Hunte, was not allowed to plead to four offences relating to the daylight robbery of visitors Philip Prior, 72, and his wife Ann, 59, because they were indictable.
Marlon Gooding, 35, of St Philip, was jointly charged with Hunte with three counts of robbery, one of which pertains to the attack on Ann Prior, his request for bail was denied and remanded to Dodds.
