MONTEGO BAY, St James — A man accused of unlawfully entering his father’s house will find out on September 3 how much influence a court-ordered social enquiry report will have on his sentencing.

Delroy Ferguson, 36, pleaded guilty to housebreaking with intent when he appeared in the St James Parish Court last Wednesday.

According to court documents, before the incident the defendant’s belongings were removed from his father’s premises and he was also ordered to vacate the property in line with a court order.

However, it is alleged that around 11:55 am on July 17, the complainant returned to his house in Pitfour, St James, to find the door he had locked behind the gate broken into and his son back on the premises.

The matter was reported to the police and when cautioned, Ferguson allegedly said, “This is my side…a mi house; through the window mi walk, and mi nuh have anywhere else to go.”

After the allegations were presented, presiding judge Natiesha Fairclough-Hylton made it clear to Ferguson that he was not allowed to be on the property.

“Clearly, you cannot live there, and the court made an order that you cannot stay there. I’m trying to understand why you go against the order of the court and decided that you are going to go back there,” she said to him.

“If you cannot come out by X time, don’t you think the right thing to do is to go back to the court and say, ‘I need more time?’” the judge asked.

Ferguson did not respond.

Fairclough-Hylton subsequently ordered a social enquiry report and Ferguson’s criminal records before remanding him in custody.

The case will be heard on September 3, during which the defendant will be sentenced.

“I don’t take lightly persons going against orders of the court. If the court gives you an order to come out of somewhere by a certain time, you are to remove from it. Don’t break in and go back in there so that the court has to remove you from there,” the judge told Ferguson before he was escorted to the holding area.