A 15-year-old boy has appeared before Newport Magistrates’ Court charged with robbing an Iceland supermarket in Caerphilly town.
The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is accused of robbing a large quantity of cash from the store, on Cardiff Road, on March 30, when two workers were opening the shop.
The boy was remanded in custody to appear before Newport Crown Court on April 16.
A 19-year-old man has also been charged with the robbery and appeared at Newport Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday March 31.
Adam Mackie, of Pen y Cae, Mornington Meadows, Caerphilly, spoke only to confirm his name, address and date of birth.
He was remanded in custody to appear before Newport Crown Court on May 1.
This will probably appear pedantic, to some, but surely the wording of the article should be “charged with robbery at an Iceland supermarket” and “accused of stealing a large quantity of cash from the store” not ‘robbing.’
A person or persons can be ‘robbed’, not an inanimate object. (With the exception of banks, for some reason.) This usage has become common in very recent years, I often hear somebody say “my car was robbed” instead of, the correct, “my car was stolen.”
Maybe everyone else is happy with the wording of the article but the misuse of terms grates with me. I also bristle when people say “can I lend a quid off you?” when they mean ‘borrow.’ I am no grammarian, and use all sorts of idiomatic language, but when reading the news it would be so much less distracting if the grammar used was of a higher order than that heard on the high street.
This will probably appear pedantic, to some, but surely the wording of the article should be “charged with robbery at an Iceland supermarket” and “accused of stealing a large quantity of cash from the store” not ‘robbing.’
A person or persons can be ‘robbed’, not an inanimate object. (With the exception of banks, for some reason.) This usage has become common in very recent years, I often hear somebody say “my car was robbed” instead of, the correct, “my car was stolen.”
Maybe everyone else is happy with the wording of the article but the misuse of terms grates with me. I also bristle when people say “can I lend a quid off you?” when they mean ‘borrow.’ I am no grammarian, and use all sorts of idiomatic language, but when reading the news it would be so much less distracting if the grammar used was of a higher order than that heard on the high street.