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Nigel Massicot, who is well known by law enforcement, was on December 18, 2012 sentenced to 9 months in jail after he pleaded guilty to stealing a laptop.<\/p>\nNigel Massicot, who is well known by law enforcement, was on December 18, 2012 sentenced to 9 months in jail after he pleaded guilty to stealing a laptop.<\/p>\n
He was sent to the slammer despite his pleas that he wants to spend Christmas at home.<\/p>\n
It is reported that he stole the item from a Haitian national who lives in Bath Estate.<\/p>\n
Court documents show that in the wee hours of December 1, 2012, the complainant was awakened to noise and he saw a hand pulling the computer through a window. Massicot was chased but he managed to escape. He was later found in some flowers but managed to run away, dropping the laptop in the process.<\/p>\n
The lap top was found but it was permanently\u00a0 damaged.<\/p>\n
The police were called and 15 days later Massicot was arrested. He admitted to the crime and said he was \u201csorry\u201d.\u00a0 \u201cI am sorry for my actions, is long time I doh spend a Christmas out of prison and don\u2019t want to return there,\u201d he told the police.<\/p>\n
In a mitigating plea his lawyer, Bernadette Lambert, asked the court not to impose a custodial sentence on him. \u201cHe is remorseful for his actions and is trying to turn his life around, he has not wasted the court’s time, he is the sole provider for his 14-year-old daughter. Your Honour it\u2019s the time of giving and joy, he is begging for mercy from the court,\u201d Lambert stated passionately.<\/p>\n
But her pleas fell on deaf ears as magistrate Candia Carette-George,\u00a0 while admitting to the passionate pleas, said that Massicot was \u201cnot learning\u201d. \u201cYou were on the verge on spending Christmas out of prison but you messed it up … you have yourself to blame for spending yet another Christmas in prison,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She also spoke of the \u201chigh prevalence of theft\u201d and said she had a right to protect the society. \u201cTheft is on the rise and every day … it is growing and is on top of arrest matters before the court,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Only in May this year the Court of Appeal freed Massicot after he was jailed for another case of theft. They viewed his sentence as \u201cexcessive\u201d and treated his time of incarceration as \u201ctime spent\u201d and released him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigel Massicot, who is well known by law enforcement, was on December 18, 2012 sentenced to 9 months in jail after he pleaded guilty to stealing a laptop. He was sent to the slammer despite his pleas that he wants…","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-court-law"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n