Wrong move! Those were the words Magistrate Douglas Frederick used to describe the actions of Darell Ramon Foster.
The 24-year-old unemployed man, of 1st Avenue, Fairfield Road, Black Rock, St Michael, admitted entering the dwelling house of Fiona Husbands as a trespasser with intent to steal on Thursday.
Prosecutor Sergeant Rudy Pilgrim informed the District “A” Magistrates’ Court that the complainant lives with her husband and two children, one of whom is a pregnant 17-year-old.
On the day in question, the complainant left her daughter at home, returned shortly thereafter and retired to her bedroom.
Sometime later while the daughter was opening the windows throughout the house, she encountered a man bobbing and weaving behind the television. When asked what he was doing there, Foster said: “I come to talk to you, I come to talk to you.”
The daughter, fearing for her life, grabbed the telephone and dialled the emergency 211 hotline. The trespasser followed her into the kitchen, where she screamed “get out of my mother house”.She ran to the bathroom where she locked herself in until the police arrived.
When the officers checked around the house, the accused was nowhere around but based on a tip-off they later returned and held him.
Foster told the magistrate that he had entered through an unlocked window above the kitchen sink looking for something to eat.
“Things hard, sir. I accustom getting something to eat from the mother or stepfather. Dem is my next door neighbours, but when I went nobody wasn’t home. . . . I trying to find work but nobody not replying sir,” he said.
“You wouldn’t break into anyone else house because I am sending you to prison today. I am ordering a pre-sentencing report and that will take about eight weeks,” the magistrate told Foster.
He returns to court on January 12. (RA)
