A pillion rider who stole two gold-looking chains from a man and a woman while they were standing at the bus stop on Washington Boulevard in St Andrew was slapped with a one-year prison sentence.

Anthony Young, 32, of Sunrise Crescent, Kingston, who claimed he stole the items to provide for his young daughter, was sentenced after he pleaded guilty to robbery with aggravation in court on Wednesday before Judge Pusey.

The bike rider, Marshall Ward was also arrested and charged with robbery with aggravation but was freed of the charge after Young told the court that he was not involved and had only given him a ride.

The court heard that on November 25, at 4:40 pm the complainants were standing at the bus stop when Young snatched their chains and fled.

He was subsequently found in Ward’s company and when questioned about the necklace told the police that he threw them away but later went to retrieve them from under the seat of the motorbike.

When the matter was mentioned, Young admitted to stealing the items but said that Ward was not involved.

But the judge told him: “When two vowels go walking the first one does the talking.”

However, Young maintained that Ward was innocent.

“I really take them through I have a little daughter but him never do that.

“I take something and run up the Boulevard,” he said while explaining that Ward had just given him a ride.

“A so it go?” Pusey asked Ward who quickly said, “Yes”.

Young continued by saying: “Is the first I doing those things, I am a sick man but through me daughter me do it, “ he repeated.

He was then sentenced to 12 months in prison while a no-order was ruling was made against Ward.