Repeat offender found hiding in Island Dairies outlet ceiling
A repeat offender was sentenced to six months in prison after he broke into an Island Dairies outlet and was found hiding in the ceiling.
Twenty-nine-year-old Barrington Buchanan pleaded guilty with explanation to a charge of office breaking with intent when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Tuesday.
Reports are that on May 10 at approximately 2:30 am, the police were summoned to the Constant Spring Road, Kingston, outlet. Following a search, Buchanan was found hiding in the ceiling. He was subsequently arrested and charged.
“How many times you get into trouble?” Senior Parish Judge Judith Pusey asked Buchanan.
“One or two,” Buchanan replied.
“What were you charged for?” Pusey asked.
“Firearm,” he replied.
“When you came out?” Pusey asked.
“About three years now,” Buchanan responded.
“So what have you been doing with yourself?” Pusey further questioned
According to Buchanan, he was working on a site two weeks prior to his arrest.
Asked why he should not be jailed for the crime, Buchanan explained that he had a 10-year-old daughter.
“So she experienced you going to prison already,” Pusey said.
Buchanan, in expressing remorse, declared that he had embarrassed his daughter.
Pusey, while reprimanding him, said that his daughter is a victim of his bad behaviour.
Buchanan was subsequently sentenced to six months in prison and a fingerprint order made.
— Racquel Porter
