This prisoner should have hung up.
Robert Henderson, 21, accused of trying to stab a Red Hook grocery store clerk to death, was caught admitting his crime on a phone call from Rikers Island, a judge in Brooklyn Supreme Court said yesterday.
“Mr. Henderson, when you make calls from Rikers and the recording says you are being recorded — you are,” Judge Patricia DiMango reminded him during a pretrial conference. “They have recordings of you saying you committed the crime and where you put the knife.”
“I never said that,” the tattooed Henderson protested.
But he was allegedly recorded saying, “Don’t tell my lawyer I stabbed this person,” on a call to a family member, a source said.
Henderson was arrested last year after his uncle dropped a dime on him, authorities said at the time. He faces attempted murder and assault charges for two attacks — one with a wine bottle and one with a knife — on the same 34-year-old grocery store employee.
Authorities said in 2011 that Henderson accused the 34-year-old employee of a Lorraine Street grocery store of stealing a cellphone he claimed to have left behind – then allegedly smashed the man in the head with a wine bottle.
About two weeks later Henderson followed the clerk to a nearby Chinese restaurant, where he allegedly used a knife to stab the clerk in the neck and head, authorities said at the time.