Nicholas Brian Bishop who slashed the tyres on 89 vehicles in mid-June, will spend three years in prison.
Magistrate Barbara Cooke-Alleyne handed down the sentence yesterday when the 32-year-old Haynesville, St James resident reappeared in the Holetown Magistrates’ Court.
Bishop was sentenced to two years’ mprisonment for criminal damage to several vehicles in four St James neighbourhoods between June 16 and 17. He was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment on an antenna theft charge.
Bishop faced 35 charges, most of them related to the slashing.
In a court appearance on November 23,
he said he was so angry after he was caught trying to steal a boat engine that he decided to slash tyres.
“I went to Fitts Village to get a boat part,” he had told the magistrate. “I was struck by the man who own the boat. I know he was going to call the police and when I was leaving I was angry, so I just slash the tyres.”
Ironically, police investigations led to his arrest after he attempted to steal an antenna from a St Thomas home around 3:45 a.m. one day last month.
The court heard that Bishop had five previous convictions, related to criminal damage and illicit drugs.
