The Nassau Guardian
Men get 10 years for armed robbery
Two men who admitted to an armed robbery before jurors saw them on surveillance footage were each sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment yesterday.
Ashwell Bain and Trevor Bowleg pleaded guilty to the March 24, 2011 hold-up at the Leam Wong Food Store.
The men got away with $500 after Bowleg pulled a handgun on a cashier, according to the evidence.
Both men, according to their lawyers, had disadvantaged childhoods.
According to attorney Calvin Seymour, Bain, who is 36, grew up without knowing his father, and spent periods of his childhood at the Boys’ Industrial School.
Bowleg, 34, lived at the Ranfurly Home, according to Raymond Rolle.
In delivering her sentence, Justice Vera Watkins said that Bain had no previous convictions. Although Bowleg had convictions for nonviolent offenses such as stealing, drug possession, unlawful possession and causing damage, Watkins said she would give him the same treatment as Bain since his last conviction was in 2003.
Watkins did not accept the recommendation of a seven year sentence from Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Franklyn Williams.
She said the men deserved a lengthier term because the use of a firearm placed the store’s employees “at great risk of serious injury or death”.
The time each convict spent on remand will be deducted from their overall sentence. Bain spent two years and 10 months at Her Majesty’s Prisons and Bowleg spent a year on remand.
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