Six months at Dodds for breaking national curfew

A 45-year-old unemployed man from Cliff Land, St John will spend the next six months of his life in jail for breaching the 24-hour Covid-19 curfew.

Ian Emmerson Bennett pleaded guilty before Magistrate Wayne Clarke today to being outdoors around 2 a.m. on April 9 without a reasonable excuse when there was a Government directive in place that everyone must be indoors at that time.

“It is not how it seems. I know what I mean,” Bennett told the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court after he entered his plea.

He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge that on the same date he stole two pounds of cassava belonging to Carrington Estates Limited.

Bennett was sentenced to time for breaching the curfew but will return before the court on May 8 on the theft charge. (FW)