Police Press Release
Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 22, 2018 (RSCNPF): Twenty-three-year-old Ackeem Connor of St. Paul’s was sentenced to serve time in prison for the offence of Robbery at a High Court hearing on November 16, 2018.
Connor was indicted on March 24, 2017 for the offence. He was found guilty on October 09, 2018. The prescribed penalty for the offence of Robbery is twenty years with or without hard labour. His Lordship intended a sentence of seven years, but in considering the aggravating and mitigating factors, the fact that the prisoner has no previous convictions, and the time spent in pre-sentence custody – one year, five months and eighteen days – Connor was sentenced to five years, two months and ten days in prison.