A Gasparillo man who claimed he stole $40 from a food outlet because he was hungry complained to magistrate yesterday that he was still hungry.
Chris Smith was subsequently sent for an evaluation at the St Ann’s Psychiatric Hospital after he began yawning loudly several times in the San Fernando First Magistrates Court.
Smith, 57, of Lumsden Street, Gasparillo, appeared before Senior Magistrate Cherril-Anne Antoine charged with stealing $40 from 4Rs mini-mart and fast food restaurant at Elizabeth Street, Marabella on Wednesday. He is also charged with being unlawfully found on the compound for the purpose of stealing. He was charged by PC Patrick.
Smith told the magistrate, “I was very hungry. You see what I going through right now and I hungry, that was the same way I was feeling on the day.”
“You cannot break into people places because you are hungry,” the magistrate told him.
He has to return to court on December 7.