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A 27-year-old, who burgled a home before making a getaway on a child’s scooter and ending up in a barn stand-off with Police, has not been allowed to leave custody to visit his grandmother before he is sentenced tomorrow.
Paul David William Le Geyt, who will appear in the Royal Court to be sentenced tomorrow, is facing jail after a jury of six men and six women found him guilty of illegally entering a cottage to steal two luxury watches and a camera lens following a three-day trial.
Le Geyt denied the charges, telling the jury he was only at the St. Peter home to “settle a dispute between an ongoing situation where drugs were being delivered to a person’s address”, and he was planning “a form of blackmail to make this stop.”
He maintained in Police interview and throughout the trial that he didn’t go to the house to steal anything and that he was there as part of his plan to try and topple a “very dangerous individual” who was running an elaborate conspiracy to import drugs into the island – exploiting a young woman in the process.
Having deliberated for around two hours, the jury returned a guilty verdict on the single charge of illegal entry and larceny.
Pictured: The house that Mr Le Geyt was accused of stealing from is in the area of Beaumont. (Google Maps)
Le Geyt will appear before the Superior Number – a panel that only assembles for the most serious of crimes – tomorrow for his sentencing.
He appeared in Royal Court on Friday, when his lawyer, Advocate Francesca Pinel, made an application for bail.
She explained Le Geyt wanted three days to see his family, particularly his elderly grandmother. Advocate Pinel said Le Geyt was concerned she “would not make it” until the end of his upcoming sentence and said he wanted to see her “before she dies."
She acknowledged three days might not sound like much, but that it was “worth a lot more to him".
Video: Paul David William Le Geyt leaving Court having learned of his conviction.
The defence lawyer also told Court Le Geyt had offered to pay £500 as bail money.
Acknowledging the “optimistic nature” of her application, she concluded saying she hoped the Court would grant it “in light of the unusual circumstances.”
Royal Court Commissioner Julian Clyde-Smith, who was sitting with Jurats Jerry Ramsden and Gareth Hughes, refused to grant bail.
Le Geyt will appear tomorrow in the Royal Court at 10:00.
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