Nine months' imprisonment was the sentence decided in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday for a man convicted of stealing items from a private property.

Richard Ross, 42, welder, pleaded guilty to simple larceny for stealing a microphone and a charger from the complainant's premises, with intent to sell.

Ross, after being quizzed by Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey, confessed that he had served a four-year prison sentence before for robbery.

On the day of the incident, Ross was seen on the complainant's premises by a King Alarm security team, which accosted him and searched a bag he was carrying in which the items were hidden. He was escorted to the New Kingston Police Post where he was formally charged.