Two teenagers who admitted to committing a series of burglaries at schools in the north of the island have been remanded in custody pending sentencing.
Jalanie Junior Jaquez Skinner, 16, of Coles Cave, St Lucy, and a 15-year-old boy pleaded guilty to all 12 burglary charges when they appeared before Magistrate Wayne Clarke in the Holetown Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
Skinner was remanded to HMP Dodds until June 10 for sentencing, while the minor was sent to the Government Industrial School.
The pair confessed to breaking into Selah Primary School on four occasions: July 10, 2024; between November 15 and 16, 2024; on March 18; and again on April 27 this year.
They also allegedly committed burglaries at St Lucy Primary School between November 15 and 16, 2024; at the Coleridge and Parry Secondary School between March 27 and 28; at All Saints Primary School and All Saints Nursery School between March 5 and 6; at the Daryl Jordan Secondary School between March 30 and April 1; at St James Primary School on May 11; and at the Roland Edwards Primary School and Gordon Greenidge Primary School between May 11 and 12. (BT)
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