A former member of the Barbados Defence Force (BDF) Sports Programme who lost out on an overseas scholarship when he was held with a loaded gun was fined when he reappeared in the No. 2 Supreme Court on Friday.
“We don’t understand why you would have found yourself in this position but we take it that, based on the facts, you were basically placed in the position. But one would hope that you would, from now on, be very wary of friends,” Justice Randall Worrell told footballer Ranaldo Sanato Trim.
“To have lost the scholarship or to not be able to proceed with the scholarship is, I think, extremely frustrating for you. That may have been a gateway to much better things. It is a hard lesson you have had to learn,” he added.
Trim, of 3rd Avenue, Licorish Village, My Lord’s Hill, St Michael, had pleaded guilty, at an earlier Session of the Continuous Sittings, to having a .38-calibre revolver and one round of ammunition on May 19, 2020.
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