Teenager jailed 10 years for robbery

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Teenager jailed 10 years for robbery

PORT MORESBY: An 18-year-old was jailed 10 years by the National Court in Kokopo for robbing a businessman of more than K52,000 in valuables and cash last year.

Acting judge Paul Tusais jailed Gabriel Kaka, from Vunamami village for his involvement in the robbery and ordered him to serve his sentence in Kerevat Prison.

Details of the sentencing were reported by The National:

Man gets 10 years for robbery

October 25, 2021The NationalNational

A MAN was jailed 10 years by the National Court in Kokopo for robbing a businessman of more than K52,000 in valuables and cash last year.
Acting Judge Paul Tusais jailed Gabriel Kaka, 18, from Vunamami village, for his involvement in the robbery and ordered him to serve his sentence in Kerevat Prison.
Kaka and four men broke into the house of Peter Woolcott after subduing a security guard in Klin Wara Plantation in the Lasul local level government area in Gazelle.
They then woke Woolcott and his wife, threatened the couple before ransacking the house for valuables and cash.
The robbery gang leader had earlier befriended a local girl in the area and had gone to stay with her for a week.
While staying there, he learnt that Woolcott kept large amounts of cash and a pistol in his house.
The gang leader returned to Kokopo and recruited the four men, including Kaka, telling them that the intended victim had “heavy coins”.
They travelled to Klin Wara and the gang leader told his new found girlfriend that the men were students who wished to spend their school holidays in Klin Wara in her house. The gang stayed for a week and carried out surveillance on Wolcott’s premises by walking around his store and residence and taking pictures on their mobile phones.
On July 17, 2020, they went to Woolcott’s house between 2am and 3am armed with homemade guns, knives and a pinch bar.
Kaka stood guard outside keeping an eye on a security guard that they had subdued and tied up.
The others entered the house where Woolcott and his wife were sleeping.
The robbers took K20,026, a Glock pistol valued at K25,000, three laptops valued at K7,300 and other valuables.
Kaka escaped with the others and was in hiding until he was caught by Kokopo police in March.

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