Portmore resident Barrington Patterson, who pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property, was sentenced to six months, hard labour in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court recently.

Patterson, originally charged with larceny of motor vehicle, pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property. After a social inquiry report revealed that he had 12 previous convictions for similar offences, he was sentenced by Senior RM Lorna Errar.

Investigating officer, Detective Corporal Aneita West-Grant of the Portmore police, outlined that the owner of the 1998 Honda motor car, valued at $580,000, had parked it at his gate in July 2006 and woke up and found it missing.

However, later that day, he spotted Patterson driving the vehicle and summoned the police.