The handbrakes were applied to car thief Ryan O’Neal Wickham, who stole 12 cars in an eight-month crime spree stretching across three parishes.
Yesterday, Justice Pamela Beckles sentenced him to ten years in prison for the car thefts and five years for injuring the neighbour who stopped him from taking one of the cars and, with help, tied him up until police arrived.
Wickham, 39, of Wellington Drive, Enterprise Coast Road, Christ Church, was back in the No. 5 Supreme Court for sentencing after he had pleaded guilty, at an earlier Session of the Continuous Sittings, to 12 counts of theft of Toyota cars, one count of having a drilling machine, an electrical switch and other items while not being at his place of abode, on June 23, 2017, and assaulting Greg Alleyne, occasioning him actual bodily harm on that same date.
Wickham has 45 previous convictions, 42 for theft and one each for trespassing, assault and using threatening words. (HLE)
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