MONTEGO BAY, St James — ANDRE Williams will spend Christmas and the New Year behind bars after he was denied bail when he returned to the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

The 22-year-old man who is facing charges of housebreaking and larceny was found to have been serving a suspended sentence for the same crime.

Williams’ police records revealed that the Bogue Hill man was given a two-years suspended sentence in June last year.

He was remanded in custody until February next year when the case will be mentioned.

The allegations are that the complainant locked up his house in Westgate Hills on November 18 and when he returned at about 1:15 pm that same day he noticed his door was open.

He noticed that his flat screen television and a computer monitor was outside in some bushes near a car and raised an alarm.

The court heard that the complainant then saw the accused man with a handbag belonging to the complainant’s girlfriend and he was held.

The court also heard that the accused man told the complainant he was hungry and that was the reason he went into the house.

Williams’ defence attorney Albert Morgan says his client is denying the allegations. According to the lawyer his client was going about his lawful business in the Westgate Plaza area when he was held by the complainant, put in the trunk of a car and taken to the police station.