ERROR RG P4 23.5.1998 A story in Wednesday's paper stated that Reid Jones was serving seven years for his part in "the robbery''. It was referring to the July 8, 1997 hold-up of the Bank of Butterfield in Somerset, not the Woody's Drive Inn robbery in December, 1995.

A Supreme Court jury yesterday found Randolph Lightbourne guilty of robbing Woody's Drive Inn and causing grievous bodily harm to manager Owen Trott.

Lightbourne, 31, of Devon Springs Road, Devonshire, was sentenced to ten years in prison for his part in the December 22, 1995 robbery which netted about $4,600 in cash. The money has never been recovered.

Chief Justice Austin Ward also ordered Lightbourne to serve seven years for the wounding of Mr. Trott.

The sentences are to be served concurrently, but are to follow an 18-month sentence Lightbourne is already serving.

The eleven-woman, one-man jury deliberated for two hours before returning with an unanimous verdict on the robbery charge and a 10-to-2 majority verdict for the wounding.

The jury heard that bar manager Mr. Trott was locking the bar shortly after 1 a.m. on the day of the incident when he was punched from behind.

He recalled how he was also slashed in the hand, chin, and the back of his shoulder by a masked man.

Mr. Trott added that after opening the safe, he tried to escape, but was thwarted by a second man who was waiting outside of the building.

He also said the first robber was about his height -- around six feet tall -- and a second, heavier man was "maybe five-foot-six or eight''.

Both men were wearing stockings over their faces and had on hats.

The second man confronted Mr. Trott and said: "Where the f*** are you going?'' The jury heard that minutes after Somerset Police received a call from Mr. Trott, two Policemen saw a blue Mazda sedan approach Watford Bridge from Boaz Island.

Lightbourne was stopped by Police at Somerset Bridge shortly afterward and a subsequent search found a homemade nylon stocking with Mr. Trott's blood on it on the floor of the car.

The front passenger seat also had Mr. Trott's blood on it.

In an interview later that morning, Lightbourne told Police he was at his mother's home for most of the evening and never mentioned being on Boaz Island.

In court last week, Lightbourne claimed Police told him he might spend the Christmas holiday in jail.

He also testified that he loaned his car to Travis Dill before midnight and did not get it back until after 1 a.m. on December 22, 1995.

Lightbourne claimed he was on the phone to his wife when Dill -- his parent's neighbour and the son of Mr. Trott -- asked to borrow his car to take his girlfriend home.

But Crown counsel Patrick Doherty called an Immigration officer to the witness stand as well as Dill's sister to prove that Dill had left Bermuda the day before the robbery on a ten-day holiday.

Lightbourne, who has a criminal record dating back to 1981, had nothing to say when he heard the verdict.

He is serving 18 months for dangerous driving and causing the death of his friend, Colin George Francis.

He is also serving time for conspiring, with Reid Jones and Troy Desilva-Symonds, to defeat justice by telling Police that Francis was driving the car. Jones is serving a seven-year sentence for his part in the robbery.