BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – TWO Sandy Pointers who are serving time for the infamous 2010 Brimstone Hill Tourists Robbery have been exonerated of the charges laid against them for robbing the TDC Sandy Point Branch some five-plus years ago.
The two men, Elroy ‘Stannie’ Williams and Junior ‘Cue’ Sobratie, both of Crab Hill Sandy Point, appeared Monday (Mar. 7) in the Basseterre High Court before Her Ladyship Justice Marlene Carter for a progress report on the case and the Acting Director of Prosecutions (DPP) entered a nolle prosequi for the two defendants.
The DPP (Ag) did not state any reason for having dropped the charges against the men and they were whisked away to Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP), where they are each serving a 13-year sentence.
The two men now join a third individual to have had charges dropped in the TDC Sandy Point robbery.
On Friday, February 4, 2011, Leslian ‘Sexman’ Daniel, then Senior Superior of the TDC Sandy Point Branch, was arrested and charged for aiding and abetting a robbery of that business enterprise. He too was exonerated earlier this year when he appeared in court.
The fact of the case is that on the afternoon of October 29, 2010, two armed men had robbed the TDC Sandy Point Branch.
Information reaching SKNVibes at that time indicated that shortly after 3:00 p.m. two men - one wearing a ‘hoodie’ and armed with a handgun, and the other with what appeared to be an AK47 – had entered the main entrance to the Branch and robbed the business entity of an undisclosed sum of money.
That information was confirmed by an employee, who stated that after committing the crime the two bandits jumped over the perimeter fence of the compound that houses the business entity.
The employee also stated that the police in Sandy Point were notified and, on arrival at the scene, gave chase after the thieves but they were unable to apprehend them.
However, in early 2011, while Williams and Sobratie were on remand charged with robbing 17 tourists in the vicinity of the Brimstone Hill Fortress, police issued a release stating that they were charged with robbing the TDC Branch in Sandy Point.
