Resh­ma Ra­goonath

Laven­tille res­i­dent Sher­wyn Walk­er was yes­ter­day ad­vised to stop fa­ther­ing more chil­dren af­ter he claimed pro­vid­ing for them drove him to steal 72 bot­tles of John­nie Walk­er whisky and four dig­i­tal cam­eras.

San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trate Tara­mat­tie Ram­dass gave the ad­vice to the 43-year-old man af­ter she sen­tenced him to a to­tal of eight years im­pris­on­ment for steal­ing the whisky and cam­eras from PriceS­mart Ltd, La Ro­main. Ram­dass, in pass­ing sen­tence, said: "Mr Walk­er con­trol your­self when you get out and don't make any­more chil­dren."

Walk­er was charged with steal­ing 72 bot­tles of scotch whisky, val­ued $17,567.28 and four Po­laroid dig­i­tal cam­eras, val­ued $1,999.96, from PriceS­mart Ltd, La Ro­maine, on June 6. The Laven­tille man al­so was charged with re­sist­ing Es­tate Con­sta­ble Shawlan Ram­rat­tan in the ex­e­cu­tion of his du­ty.

Po­lice pros­e­cu­tor, act­ing Sgt Rudy Ali, said on June 6, se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers be­came sus­pi­cious of Walk­er while he was walk­ing out of the new­ly-opened branch of PriceS­mart Ltd. The se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers found six bot­tles of the whisky hid­den around his waist. He was ar­rest­ed.

An in­ven­to­ry was car­ried out and the scotch was dis­cov­ered miss­ing.

The PriceS­mart se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers al­so found one case of scotch con­tain­ing 12 bot­tles in Walk­er's car. He con­fessed that an­oth­er ve­hi­cle was al­so used in the scheme and that ve­hi­cle left with most of the loot.