A woman who used a bank card stolen only an hour earlier in a gunpoint street robbery, has been sentenced to two months’ home detention in a residential rehabilitation programme.
Janita Chloe Pash, 28, was sentenced for receiving stolen cell phones, shoplifting clothing from The Warehouse, possession of a knife, receiving a bank card, and using the stolen bank card twice.
Defence counsel Tom Smedley said there was a bed available in an eight week residential programme on November 28.
Judge Gary MacAskill said he would sentence Pash on her dishonesty charges, and when she had completed the residential programme satisfactorily, he would sentence her to intensive supervision for breaching her release conditions, on January 23, 2017.
Police said a man was robbed at gunpoint by two people on Wainoni Road on August 20, and his bag with his wallet, cell phone and passport photos was taken.
Pash received the property within a very short time, and forty-two minutes after the robbery she used the stolen bank card to buy tobacco and cigarettes worth $67.60 from a service station.
Ten minutes later she used it again at another service station to buy more tobacco and cigarettes worth $72.80.
Judge MacAskill ordered reparation payments for the two service stations, and $69 for The Warehouse.
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