A YOUNG MAN STOLE A GOLD BRACELET FROM A FRIEND HE

A YOUNG MAN STOLE A GOLD BRACELET FROM A FRIEND HE HAD KNOWN FOR
SIX YEARS, A COURT HEARD.

STEPHEN WILSON,20, MADE OFF WITH THE #2000 SOLID GOLD BRACELET
AFTER HE MET PETER GEORGIOU,18, IN A NEASDEN AMUSEMENT ARCADE, SAID MR
GRANT ARMSTRONG, PROSECUTING AT ACTON CROWN COURT.

THE VALUABLE BRACELET HAD BEEN MADE FROM AN OMEGA GOLD WATCH
STRAP, THE COURT HEARD.

WHEN WILSON SAW HIS FRIEND WEARING THE BRACELET HE UNDID THE
SAFETY CATCH AS HE LOOKED AT IT, THE COURT HEARD.

AND AS THE UNSUSPECTING MR GEORGIOU HELD THE LOOSE BRACELET,
WILSON ‘SNATCHED IT FROM HIS HAND’, MR ARMSTRONG SAID.

THE FRIGHTENED VICTIM ‘FELT THAT IF HE OBJECTED HE WOULD HAVE BEEN
HIT’ MR ARMSTRONG ADDED.

WILSON OFFERED HIS FRIEND #100 FOR THE BRACELET AFTER SCRATCHING
IT WITH A KEY TO CHECK THAT IT WAS SOLID GOLD, THE COURT HEARD.

BUT HE IGNORED HIS OLD FRIEND’S PLEAS NOT TO TAKE THE BRACELET,
WHICH BELONGED TO HIS MOTHER, COUNSEL SAID.

WILSON TOLD THE JURY THE BRACELET WAS STOLEN PROPERTY.

THIS WAS
WHY HE OFFERED SUCH A LOW PRICE HE SAID.

HE ADMITTED HE TOOK IT
ALTHOUGH NO PRICE WAS AGREED.

HE CLAIMED HE GAVE THE BRACELET TWO DAYS LATER TO A FRIEND AS
SECURITY FOR A #100 LOAN.

THE LOAN WAS TO BUY THE BRACELET FROM MR GEORGIOU, OF RANDALL AVE,
CRICKLEWOOD, HE TOLD THE JURY.

WILSON, UNEMPLOYED OF DAWPOOL ROAD, CRICKLEWOOD, WAS CONVICTED BY
A JURY OF THEFT OF THE BRACELET BETWEEN JANUARY 9 AND JANUARY 13 THIS
YEAR, AND WAS REMANDED IN CUSTODY FOR REPORTS.

HE DENIED THE CHARGE.

ENDS.