A POLICEMAN who held up a taxi driver in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, and robbed him at gunpoint of his motor car, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for robbery with aggravation and illegal possession of firearm.
Justice Jennifer Straw found 28-year-old Constable Duval Simmonds, also called Oral, and who was stationed at the Savanna-la-Mar Police Station, guilty of the offences.
AT GUN POINT
The Crown, represented by Crown Counsel Jeremy Taylor, led evidence in the Gun Court that in April last year Simmonds and another man pointed a gun at the taxi driver and ordered him out of his car. They drove away in the car and the matter was reported to the police.
Investigations led to Simmonds' arrest. He was placed on an identification parade and was pointed out as one of the men who committed the robbery.
Simmonds, who is from Point Hill, St. Catherine, said in his defence that he did not commit the offences.
