A deportee who had scaled the walls of the United States Embassy in Liguanea, St Andrew, naked, forcing a temporary lockdown of the facility, was freed last Friday after spending a little over two months in jail.

Lenroy Wiggins, 43, of St Thomas, who had pleaded guilty to trespassing and illegal exposure, was released from police custody after Magistrate Maxine Ellis admonished and discharged him on the charges when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court for sentencing.

“He has been in custody for almost three months and he was never offered bail for all intent and purposes he was serving time,” she said.

Said RM Ellis. “When you consider the penalty for the charges under our laws he would have served his time.”

Wiggins was arrested in July after he jumped the perimeter wall and entered the embassy compound, triggering an alarm.

Before the security breach, Wiggins reportedly made several threatening phone calls to the embassy and his picture had been posted on the embassy’s billboard for security officials to be on the look-out for him.

Wiggins, before his guilty plea, had contended that he was only trying to present his case to the embassy, claiming that he was unfairly deported and that he could not go to prison in Jamaica, as he had “ascend over on the US side”.

And during his sentencing hearing on Friday, he maintained that he was wrongly deported from the US and that he was forced to jump the wall after the embassy barred him from sending an e-mail to the US mission.

Wiggins told the magistrate that he was a citizen of the US and that he needed to return to care for his 11-year-old daughter who he claimed was being abused.

“Every time I go to my bed I’m in tears, even now I’m trying to hold back tears,” a very emotional Wiggins told the court.

He then vowed not to return to the embassy but could not hide the pride he felt knowing that he had breached the embassy’s security.

“Judge, between you and me, it took a different type of education to get past the security at the embassy,” he said.

Meanwhile, the magistrate advised Wiggins that he should seek to establish that he was a US citizen as that would help his case, and also encouraged him to take the matter to the public defender, as well as human rights advocates to take up his case and assist him.

Wiggins was represented by attorney Ryan Carty.