A Warwick man has been sentenced to 11 months in prison for robbery and evading payment after a hotel stay.

Magistrates’ Court heard this morning how Robert Green, 36, entered the Pembroke home of Devon Gardener on August 14 last year and stole cash, a gold chain and a pendant valued at a combined total of $1,680.

He also stole a gold pendant worth $2,200 and a gold ring of unknown value.

In late October this year, Green and an acquaintance also stayed at the Robin’s Nest Guest Apartments in Pembroke for five nights, but then vanished before paying the $900 bill.

Pleading guilty to both charges, the defendant apologised to those affected by his actions, adding that he had been “caught up in the vortex of my drug addiction”.

Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo noted Green’s previous criminal record for dishonesty and violence, sentencing him to nine months in prison for robbery and 60 days in prison for obtaining services by deception, with time already served taken into account.

Magistrate Tokunbo told the defendant that he had four months upon release to pay Robin’s Nest in full, and that the $1,400 he had amassed in traffic fines would be erased if he fulfilled this obligation.