Shooter pleads guilty to aggravated assault

He was missing in action at his first hearing, but when he showed up in court today, the man accused of shooting at a cop learned that justice can be swift. Thirty-one year old Lincoln Robinson pleaded guilty to four charges resulting from an exchange of gunfire near Queen’s Square Anglican School a year ago. He was sentenced by Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord to five years in prison for aggravated assault, fined ten thousand dollars or in default a year in jail for possession of an unlicensed firearm, ditto for unlicensed ammunition, and was given an additional two hundred dollar fine–or two months behind bars–for discharging a firearm in public. The sentences will run consecutively, so if Robinson cannot come up with the cash he will spend the next seven years and two months in Hattieville.