Thief sentenced to 22 years for Jenny’s robberies

The court also handed down a twenty-two year sentence today in a case of Robbery brought against a Belize City man. They say lightening never strikes the same place twice… but twenty-three year old Delroy Chaplin did and he’s going to jail for it. On July twenty-eighth, 2008 Chaplin entered Jenny’s Shop on Meighan Street armed with a point twenty-five pistol. He used the weapon to hold up the proprietor’s daughter, Hui Qwing Wu, and stole two thousand seven hundred and eighty-five dollars in cash and prepaid cards. Three days later, Chaplin returned to have another go at the Jenny’s Store cash register. This time, the owner Zio Hua Zhu was in the shop and was robbed of three hundred and sixty-six dollars. But police on mobile patrol nabbed Chaplin at the scene and he was charged shortly after. Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie sentenced him to four years for Aggravated Assault, fourteen years for Aggravated Burglary, two years for Keeping Unlicensed Firearm and two years for Keeping Unlicensed Ammunition. That adds up to twenty-two years, but Chaplin will only serve fourteen because several of the sentences are to run concurrently.