Son breaks into father’s house

A St James man who broke into his father's house in July, despite an earlier court order for him to be removed from the property, will be sentenced in the St James Parish Court.

Delroy Ferguson, 36, of Pitfour, pleaded guilty to housebreaking with intent when he appeared before presiding Parish Judge Natiesha Fairclough-Hylton on Wednesday. The court was told that on July 17, a bailiff came to the home of Ferguson's father and removed his belongings, in keeping with a previous court order for his removal from the property. Later that day, the complainant returned to the house and saw that his front door was broken into and Ferguson was inside the dwelling. The police were contacted and Ferguson was arrested and charged.

"Mr Ferguson, did you break into the house belonging to your father?" Judge Fairclough-Hylton asked.

"Yes, because at the time I got a phone call that my things were on the outside and the rain had started falling," said Ferguson.

"Do you have a house for yourself?" Fairclough-Hylton inquired.

"No," Ferguson admitted.

"You need to find somewhere for yourself to live, because you cannot live there, and the court made an order that you cannot stay there. I am trying to understand why you defied the order of the court and decided that you were going to go back there, even though the court decided that you cannot stay there," said the unamused judge.

"Don't you think that the right thing to do is to go back to the court and say 'I need more time?' I do not take lightly to persons going against the order of the court," the judge added.

Ferguson was subsequently remanded until September 3, when his criminal record and a social enquiry report are to be brought to court for his sentencing hearing.