Co-accused in P.E.I. gas station robbery pleads guilty
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — The getaway driver within the Hunter River Irving gasoline station armed theft in March has pleaded responsible for her position within the offence.
Trudy Lynn McKibbon, 35, was initially scheduled to face trial on Sept. 14 in provincial court docket in Charlottetown.
As a substitute, together with her lawyer Isaac Quinn, McKibbon pleaded responsible to being an adjunct in that she knew co-accused Matthew Douglas Uytendaele, 26, dedicated the armed theft and he or she helped him escape. McKibbon additionally gave a false alibi to police for herself and Uytendaele.
Crown lawyer Chris White entered a keep of continuing with different expenses of armed theft and breach of probation.
Studying an agreed assertion of info, White instructed the court docket that on March 3 at 1:57 a.m., Queens District RCMP acquired a 911 name from the shop clerk on the Hunter River Irving reporting an armed theft.
The clerk instructed police that earlier a white Dodge Charger with three black stripes pulled as much as a gasoline pump. A lady, later recognized as McKibbon, obtained out of the driving force’s facet of the car and pumped $40 value of gasoline into the car. Whereas doing so, Uytendaele went contained in the gasoline station carrying a camouflage hoodie and a face masks. Uytendaele pulled a hammer from his waistband and took $45 from money register. The pair left the gasoline station with the cash and the unpaid gasoline, stated White.
Police considered the shop’s video surveillance footage and had been in a position to establish Uytendaele attributable to a singular tattoo on his hand. As effectively, police had been in a position to establish the car as owned and registered to McKibbon. Police additionally lifted McKibbon’s fingerprints from the gasoline pump.
At round 3:10 a.m. that morning, police positioned the car deserted in a car parking zone in Summerside. Whereas looking the car, police positioned a hammer matching the outline of the one used within the armed theft, stated White.
After the theft, McKibbon contacted the police about her car. She gave an announcement to police and stated that somebody stole her car and keys days earlier, however she did not report it stolen. McKibbon additionally supplied a false alibi for Uytendaele and denied that both of them was on the Hunter River Irving on the time of the theft.
McKibbon arrived greater than an hour late for her Sept. 14 court docket look. Quinn defined to Choose Nancy Orr that McKibbon’s car ran out of gasoline on her solution to the courthouse.
Orr adjourned sentencing to Nov. 2 so a pre-sentence report outlining McKibbon’s background and circumstances may very well be ready. McKibbon has a previous felony file.
On July 20, Uytendaele pleaded responsible to armed theft and was sentenced to twenty months in jail.
Terrence McEachern is a justice reporter with the SaltWire Community in Prince Edward Island. He might be reached by e mail at [email protected] and might be adopted on Twitter @terry_mcn.
