MP’s Home Robbed of Millions in Cash, Jewellery
$2.5 million in jewellery and a quantity of local and US currencies have reportedly been stolen from Member of Parliament Robert ‘Bobby’ Pickersgill and an assistant.
Prosecutors state the theft took place at Pickersgill’s Millsborough Avenue home in Barbican, St Andrew.
The items — $2.5M in jewellery and US $3,800 belonging to Pickersgill, and US$3,800 and J$200,000 which is that of his assistant — were stolen from a vault in the bedroom of the People’s National Party MP, between June 10 and July 10
Neither Pickersgill nor the woman was at the house at the time of the incident.
Cedrick Dougharty, a gardener for the MP has since been apprehended in the theft.
He reportedly pleaded guilty to the deed and will remain in police custody until September 5 when he is scheduled to be sentenced.
Source: Loop Jamaica
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