SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine – Damion Bookal, a 23-year-old mason of Kitson Town, St Catherine, whom the police refer to as a “serial housebreaker”, was on Tuesday sentenced to four years’ imprisonment at hard labour when he appeared before senior St Catherine resident magistrate Lorna Errar-Gayle in the Spanish Town criminal court.

Bookal was arrested during a raid at his Kitson Town home in December 2006, after police seized household articles and electrical appliances valued at $2 million.

He was charged with six counts of housebreaking and larceny and one count of unlawful possession of goods. On Tuesday, Errar-Gayle found Bookal guilty on all seven counts, and sentenced him to three years on the housebreaking charges and one year on the unlawful possession charge.

The police had earlier told the court that they had more stolen goods found at Bookal’s home still waiting to be identified. The cops also told the court that Bookal operated in the parishes of Clarendon and St Ann, where he had additional housebreaking charges pending against him.