By LAMECH JOHNSON
Tribune Staff Reporter
ljohnson@tribunemedia.net
A MAN whom a jury believed had fled from police in a stolen car on Independence Day was sentenced to nine years in prison yesterday on a receiving charge.
However, 19-year-old Indrick Tilme will only serve eight years and five months at the Department of Corrections as he had spent seven months on remand awaiting trial for the July 9, 2012 home-invasion and accosting of Shawn and Mavis Rolle.
Justice Vera Watkins told the Seventh Street resident that his sentence would begin from December 16, 2014, the day of his conviction.
Tilme had stood trial on charges of attempted murder, burglary, armed robbery and receiving, all of which he denied.
Shawn Rolle had been shot in the leg when he confronted three intruders in his home the night before the 2012 Independence Day holiday.
Police witnesses testified that they arrested Tilme on July 10 after he, during a high-speed chase, crashed the stolen 2007 Nissan Tida into another vehicle on Wulff Road while trying to evade them.
Tilme reportedly got out of the car, but police found him, short of breath, hiding on the roof of a Palm Beach Street home.
Though Tilme declined to give a defence, his lawyer Wilfred Bain argued that his client was mistakenly identified.
However, the Crown contended that there was a reasonable basis Tilme was involved in the home invasion or, at the very least, received a stolen car.
Viola Barnett and Davix Cox prosecuted the case. Tilme has a right to appeal the conviction and sentence to the Court of Appeal.
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