Desmond Stewart, the accused robber who made a daring jump from the first floor of the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Monday in a bid to escape custody, was sentenced to six months in custody when he appeared before the court on Thursday.
Mr. Stewart, who lives on Love Lane, St James, was sentenced for the new charge of escaping custody one day after he was sentenced to six months in prison for the charge of robbery with aggravation.
Mr Stewart told the court that he has been using hard drugs since 2001 when he was in Spanish Town, and said this was partly responsible for his actions.
"From 2001 I get caught up in drugs and is like a different function in the brain," he told RM Winsome Henry
He began to cry as he told RM Henry that he had been to prison before and said he tried to escape, as he did not want to go back to prison. He also pleaded with the judge to get in contact with the powers that be to help him to get medical attention as he had damaged his back and groin during the fall and was having a hard time walking.
RM Henry told Stewart, "You are lucky to be alive; the last man who tried that (jump from the building) died."
Stewart, who had bruises on his left arm held on to the chairs and walls, will serve six months in prison, as both sentences are concurrent.
Stewart, on Monday, pleaded guilty to robbery with aggravation before RM Carolin Tie; the charge stemmed from an incident in which he was accused of stealing a woman's cellphone. It was while waiting to give his fingerprints to the police that he made his leap to freedom by jumping through a set of glass windows in the Fingerprint Room, on to a corridor and then over a wall.
Double charges for accused robber
Tashieka Mair, STAR Writer
WESTERN BUREAU
Desmond Stewart, the accused robber who made a daring jump from the first floor of the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Monday in a bid to escape custody, was sentenced to six months in custody when he appeared before the court on Thursday.
Mr. Stewart, who lives on Love Lane, St James, was sentenced for the new charge of escaping custody one day after he was sentenced to six months in prison for the charge of robbery with aggravation.
Mr Stewart told the court that he has been using hard drugs since 2001 when he was in Spanish Town, and said this was partly responsible for his actions.
"From 2001 I get caught up in drugs and is like a different function in the brain," he told RM Winsome Henry
He began to cry as he told RM Henry that he had been to prison before and said he tried to escape, as he did not want to go back to prison. He also pleaded with the judge to get in contact with the powers that be to help him to get medical attention as he had damaged his back and groin during the fall and was having a hard time walking.
RM Henry told Stewart, "You are lucky to be alive; the last man who tried that (jump from the building) died."
Stewart, who had bruises on his left arm held on to the chairs and walls, will serve six months in prison, as both sentences are concurrent.
Stewart, on Monday, pleaded guilty to robbery with aggravation before RM Carolin Tie; the charge stemmed from an incident in which he was accused of stealing a woman's cellphone. It was while waiting to give his fingerprints to the police that he made his leap to freedom by jumping through a set of glass windows in the Fingerprint Room, on to a corridor and then over a wall.