THREE years after he was sentenced to serve a little over ten years for the role he played in the kidnapping and robbery of a call centre employee in 2000, a Central Trinidad man will begin serving his sentence, starting December 1.

Anderson Bonaparte, who has been out on bail since August 2023 while awaiting the hearing of his appeal on conviction and sentence, was returned to custody to begin serving his sentence, minus the eight months and two days he spent on remand before securing bail.

Bonaparte had sought to convince the Court of Appeal to overturn his 2022 convictions for kidnapping, false imprisonment and robbery with aggravation, along with his sentence for offences dating back to 2000. On December 1, he lost his appeal before Justices of Appeal Charmaine Pemberton, Gillian Lucky and Vasheist Kokaram.