Mother stole from hotel shop after being fired

A mother-of-three who was fired from a hotel shop returned to the premises and stole almost $4,000, a court heard yesterday.

Danielle Tavonne Martin used a spare key to break into the Lobby Shop at the Fairmont Southampton on four separate occasions until managing director Laura Pitt caught her out using surveillance cameras.

Martin, 28, of Peacock Crescent, Sandys, pleaded guilty at Magistrates' Court to four counts of breaking into the shop and stealing cash.

Prosecutor Graveney Bannister said Martin was sacked on February 2. Just days later she broke into the shop and took $890.

Later that month she stole $2,114.44 before taking $300 on her third visit. She stole $522 the final time she broke in just after 7 a.m. on March 19.

Martin stole $3,826.44 in total - all of which was kept in a locked safe.

Mr. Bannister said Martin knew where the key to the safe was kept.

He said Ms Pitt installed the security cameras inside the shop "having had enough" of money going missing.

Mr. Bannister said that when she was arrested Martin, who now works as a cabana attendant at the Nine Beaches resort, told Police she was struggling to care for her children after losing her job.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner ordered a social inquiry report and adjourned the case until July 11.

Man caught speeding at 91kph

A 26-year-old man who drove a car at 91 kph because it felt "smooth" on a good stretch of road narrowly avoided being banned from driving all vehicles for three years yesterday.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner told Wayne Reginald Smith that he would like to have disqualified him from driving any vehicle and forced him to "get a taxi to go to work" but the law would not allow him.

He banned Smith from driving all vehicles except auxiliary cycles for 36 months.

Smith pleaded guilty to three counts of speeding at Magistrates' Court.

He did 63 kph on Kindley Field Field Road on December 19 last year, 91 kph on the same stretch of road ten days later and 79 kph on Crow Lane, Pembroke, on March 24.

He told the court that when he hit 91kph "the car got smooth as I was driving. I was on a good stretch. I wasn't looking at my speedometer".

He added: "I apologise for the fact that I was speeding."

Mr. Warner fined Smith, of Eastdale Lane, Southampton, $1,300.

Motorcyclist banned from roads

A 25-year-old who drove his motorcycle at 89 kph after "a few shots" was banned from the roads for two years yesterday.

Ernest Heys Ndasi O'Brien Wolfe pleaded guilty at Magistrates' Court to speeding and driving while impaired on April 8.

Crown counsel Graveney Bannister said Police stopped Wolfe, of Cedar Park, Devonshire, after seeing him speeding west along Crow Lane in Pembroke.

He told an officer who asked if he was driving under the influence of alcohol: "I had a few shots".

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner fined him $2,600 and gave him two 24-month bans for all vehicles to run consecutively. He warned Wolfe that if the fines were not paid by June 22 "full legal consequences will follow".