Career burglar, ‘King Kong’, caught climbing three storey house (+Video)

A career burglar with 42 previous convictions has landed himself back in prison for nine months after he was caught climbing onto the top floor porch of a three-storey house.

This was the sentence handed down to Raphael ‘King Kong’ Robinson when he appeared before magistrate John Ballah at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court on August 14.

Ballah concluded that a custodial sentence best suited Robinson as based on his antecedents, it is not likely that he can be rehabilitated. He is however someone who the court needs to protect the society from in order to prevent and deter him from committing other crimes.

The Pole Yard resident pleaded guilty that on August 11, he entered a property at Sion Hill Bay with intent to commit the offence of theft.

According to the facts presented by prosecutor Shamrock Pierre, the virtual complainant was at home with her family on the top floor of a three storey building, some time after 9:15 p.m.

The resident owns a dog which began barking very aggressively. As a result, she investigated, and while doing so, she saw the man jumping from the top floor, down to the ground. She screamed at him saying,”get out of my place.”

This then alerted her husband who came to her assistance and they both saw the man running from their property. A neighbour who was altered was able to identify the trespasser as King Kong.

The police were contacted and while they were heading in the vicinity of Cash Money Auto at Sion Hill Bay, Robinson recognized them and ran. However, he was apprehended.

He admitted to entering the property and told the police that he was going to “pick mangoes”.

SEARCHLIGHT was also reliably informed that he was carrying a knife in his hands and a screw driver in his backpack when he was intercepted.

Magistrate Ballah adjusted his mind to the aims of criminal sentencing and for the offence, which carries a maximum of two years imprisonment, he adopted a starting point of one year.

He also assessed the aggravating and mitigating factors in which he highlighted that King Kong has 42 previous convictions with 41 of them being offences related to dishonesty such as burglary, theft and criminal trespass.

Due to his guilty plea, Robinson was given a one-third discount off his sentence which brought his final sentence down to nine months.

King Kong is no stranger to the court as he has a reputation for dishonesty and has been coming before the courts since 1993.

In 2018 he was shot while trespassing onto the grounds of a local hotel after he went there with the intent to commit the offence of theft.

Then Senior Magistrate Rickie Burnett, before sentencing King Kong to six months in jail asked him, “When are you going to change your life?” “I am changing my life now,” Robinson insisted.

He also told the then senior magistrate that he was “trying his best.” However, the unconvinced Burnett said, “You’re not trying your best, you’re a dishonest man – based on your record,” he intoned. “You’re lucky to be alive,” Burnett stated.

The words of the senior magistrate were proven to be true as Robinson is continuing with his life of dishonesty.

In 2007 he was jailed for 10 years after he pleaded guilty to 26 charges stemming from burglaries where he broke into the apartments of medical students and stole cash and a substantial number of items.