Man jailed 3 years for robbing bartender
(CNS): A customer at the Everglo Bar in Bodden Town who robbed one of the bartenders last September was jailed for three years on Thursday. Dalton Benjamin Robinson Jr (23), who has a previous robbery conviction from when he was just 16, was described as having a high risk or reoffending and to have shown little empathy for his victim, who had been in Cayman for just two weeks when she was robbed.
As the bar was closing the victim had gone outside and to the rear of the bar to get a WiFi signal to make a phone call when she was approached by the robber.
She said she believed that Robinson was armed with a knife, as she could see that he was holding something under his shirt as he approached her, saying, “This is a robbery,” and demanding her bag and phone. Trembling and thinking he might kill her, the woman did as he asked before she ran to her co-workers, who were also just leaving the bar, and raised the alarm.
Following his arrest, Robinson denied the charges, insisting he was not the robber. But with both the victim and a security guard picking him from a line-up and CCTV supporting the victim’s account, he was convicted by a jury after trial.
As the judge considered the circumstances of the case and Robinson’s own personal circumstances, she said there were no real mitigating circumstances but that it was a quick and opportunistic crime in which Robinson had not even tried to conceal his identity.
She also noted that Robinson had no parental supervision growing up. His mother left when he was six, shortly after his father was jailed for a significant period. A few years later, when he was just eight years old, the grandmother who had been taking care of him died.
He eventually found himself at Bonaventure and was using drugs and alcohol from a young age. After being jailed for a robbery when he was just 16 and having never finished high school, he found it impossible to find work, spiralling into a criminal lifestyle.
As she handed down her sentence, Justice Marlene Carter urged the young man to make the most of the opportunities at the prison to learn a skill and turn his life around while serving his sentence.
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Unfortunately not smart enough to plead guilty and get out in 18 months or less.
not smart enough or not coward enough? a backbone is something not all persons have. It’s a person’s right to plead not guilty, so let them exercise it. Stand for something unless you’ll fall for anything..like the okie doke.
5.41pm Maybe a clown would follow your advice even though there were two witnesses who identified him along with CCTV evidence.
Why bother? He’ll most likely be out in 6 months anyway.
Another good Caymanian dropped through the cracks. See what happens when we don’t care for our young?
He clearly didn’t care for himself!!! He allowed himself to fall to where he’s at. No pity nor remorse for people like him idc it could be my brother he’d get the same treatment. They do bs like this then blame it on their past like hello you don’t live there anymore!! What are you going tell me now he didn’t know right from wrong?? Man look ya he KNEW what he was doing well before he had done it and he KNEW it was wrong but he STILL did it. So no matter what he gets into it’s not his “past’s” fault it’s HIS OWN DAMN FAULT!!!! Take what you got and try to better yourself guy don’t be an idiot and continue to be a repeat offender. Now is when you can make a difference for YOURSELF SO DO IT!!!!!
Your comment is so misguided and wrong. Our pasts are what define us as people. Sometimes they make us strong and determined, sometimes they make us depressed and suicidal and for many reasons they are enough to get us into all sorts of trouble. People commit crimes because they have nothing good going on their lives and they have nobody to look up to and tell them it is wrong. If we don’t have any guidance or love as a child who do we get it from? How do we learn how to behave if we don’t have a role model? He probably has complex ptsd ( look it up) from all his trauma he has gone through or he has other mental health issues. Nobody is born evil! They are made bad because of their environment. Have some compassion for a fellow human being. Imagine him as a child with nobody. How would you feel? What would you do to feel better about yourself? You don’t know, because you haven’t walked in his shoes.
I’ve been in his shoes and made a decision for myself to make the best out of everything I had and everything I never had. I’ve felt it all first hand. I was raised by my mother with no father figure in my life but I kept my eyes on the bigger picture. I didn’t want anything like that for my kids when I do have God’s willing so I strived for better. I was doing shit between 10-13 that only a grown ass criminal would be doing. One day I just looked around and said to myself “This lifestyle is going to get me nowhere and fast” and at that God given moment was when I made my mind up for myself. Just to make sure I didn’t “fall through the cracks” as my fellow Caymanians like to call it. Always blaming everything else but themselves!! Like this is the real world. No rewind, no pause, no play, no fast forward and definitely no reset buttons are provided for any of us.. You want something you’ve got to ACTUALIZE IT!!!!!
Would you still have this view had he been any other nationality?
Nationality really and truly isn’t even a factor here period.. I’m Caymanian and I would’ve felt the same way even if he was an alien it doesn’t matter where you’re from since you’re asking me..
I’ve personally knew this guy since middle school, he wasn’t bad he was actually pretty nice and cool.
sad to see him fall through the cracks, he needed guidance but nobody gave it to him.
At middle school in PACE, there was lots of guidance! On the George Hicks Campus…so much care! It’s just that you were in class and didn’t see him the way others did. These others really did pull out all the stops for him but…
Produce of the Single parent generation left to roam free of standards and family discipline.
No! He had plenty of opportunity and a lot of caring people around him at school. He took off on the compound, ignored the fatherly figures who spent so much time with him. We cared so so much for Benjamin! Sorry but you need to understand this fact!
Caring people at school are all well and good but they aren’t family. They are doing their jobs, they don’t love him unconditionally like his family should have done. That’s why he took off! He was crying inside! People show they emotions by how they behave. He was acting out at school because he was sad. Only God can judge.