Michael McLean, STAR Writer

Santa Cruz

A 26-year-old man who was charged with larceny of goats was yesterday sentenced to four months' hard labour after he pleaded guilty to stealing the animals in the Santa Cruz Resident Magistrate's Court.

Damian Cameron of Warminister district, St Elizabeth, broke down in court after he was sentenced by RM Dionne Mayler-Reid.

It is alleged that on May 23, about 10 a.m., the police at the Nain Police Station received information about goats which were stolen. The police went to Swain Hill at Nain district, where they saw Cameron butchering one of the goats with three others tied under a mango tree. He was arrested and charged.