Stanton Gillett gets five years for burglary

And in news from the courts, forty-six year old labourer of Burrell Boom, Stanton Gillett, was today sentenced for Burglary. Gillett claimed in court the offence was in fact about weed he did not deliver. Gillett will spend five years behind bars after he was found guilty of burglarizing his neighbour’s house. The incident occurred on November eighteenth 2007, when Derek Davis, a welder caught Gillett inside his parent’s living room in Burrell Boom. According to Davis, he was awoken by a noise coming from the kitchen and when he opened his bedroom door, a light flashed in his face. He then grabbed his machete and swung it in the direction of the glare and when he turned on the lights, he recognized Gillett, who he has known for five years, suffering from a cut wound to his arm. Gillett denied burglarizing the house and instead claimed that he was wounded when he only delivered twenty-five dollars of weed to Davis instead of the hundred dollars worth that was paid for. Gillett also claimed that he was injured on the veranda and not the living room of the home. However, because blood was found on the living room floor and not on the verandah, Magistrate Sharon Fraser did not buy Gillett’s story. She found him guilty and ordered him remanded to prison.