Tyres slasher remanded

Bridgetown.

A man who was angry after he was caught trying to steal a boat engine that he went through several neighbourhoods in the St James area  and  slashed the tyres on 89 vehicles.

Nicholas Brian Bishop of Haynesville, St James, pleaded guilty to 35 charges in the Holetown Magistrates Court's yesterday evening when Magistrate Barbara Cooke-Alleyne read out the charges to him.

Thirty one of the charges were for the slashing typres between June 16 and 17. Ironically police investigation led to his arrest after he was caught trying to steal an antenna from a house in St Thomas last week.

The unrepentant man was remanded to Her Majesty's Prison Dodds until December 2.