54 year-old Anthony Mortis is jail tonight, and he's serving the first day of a 7 year sentence after he was convicted of burglary today in Magistrate's Court.
The incident happened just before 8 a.m. on May 22 of last year at the Belize City home of 51 year-old Frank Barrow on Crown Cone Avenue in Coral Grove.
Police constable Roy Eck testified in the trial against Mortis that that he and other police officers responded to a report of a burglary in progress and when they arrived at the scene he saw Mortis peeping through a crack at the back door of the upper flat. Eck said when he searched Mortis he found 2 gold earrings and another piece of jewellery in his pocket.
In his defence, Mortis testified and denied committing the offence. He said that it was the police who took him to the house where the burglary was committed.
After considering all the evidence, Magistrate Hettie Stuart told him that his defense was not credible and that the prosecution has proved its case. She sentenced him to 7 years in prison.
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