The Court of Appeal has ordered that Jamaican quarantine breaker Dean George Scott be released from HMP Dodds immediately after the two months he was there was deemed as time served.
This decision was handed down this morning by Chief Justice Sir Patterson Cheltenham and Justices of Appeal Rajendra Narine and Margaret Reifer.
Scott, 49, a mason, who was a guest at Crystal Beach Hotel, had pleaded guilty before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes to contravening Paragraph (14) of the Emergency Management (Covid-19) Curfew No 4 Directive, 2020, in that being a person in quarantine at the St Lucy District Hospital, he left the facility without a reasonable explanation on December 7, last year.
Chief Magistrate Weekes imposed a six-month sentence after Scott begged for community service, saying he had enough money to buy his ticket back home but not $6 000 to pay a fine.
Queen’s Counsel Andrew Pilgrim and attorney Michelle Russell appeared for Scott during the appeal, while the Crown was represented by Senior Crown Counsel Oliver Thomas and Crown Counsel Danielle Mottley. (HLE)
