Man leaving home to live in cemetery

With tears streaming down his face and his voice trembling, a windshield wiper made a declaration that he would rather live in the cemetery than with his relatives.

"A the cemetery me ago live. Unnu wicked to me," Ramarieo Bailey declared. Bailey's frustration came to the fore after he pleaded guilty to two counts of malicious destruction of property and disorderly conduct. Prosecutors outlined that on November 3, the witness, who is Bailey's mother, was at home when she heard him behaving in a boisterous manner. Sometime thereafter, Bailey went into the complainant's room and destroyed a chest of drawers and a television. It was shared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court that the witness and the complainant are relatives.

The police were contacted and Bailey was arrested and taken to the Hunts Bay Police Station. While there, Bailey was behaving in a boisterous manner and the police had to forcibly restrain him, according to prosecutors. But in court, Bailey said that he was being conspired against.

"Your Honour, a me fada house dem [the witness and the complainant] a try tek me out of. Me don't live nowhere and me go back to my fada house and dem a try throw me out. Me carry me woman come a the yard, and dem a try throw her out too," he said.

"A wipe me wipe car glass a Half-Way Tree and me go work and come home and see my fan mash and nobody nah say nothing. Me leave it alone. Me go work another day and come back home and see my phone mash up. So me just go mash up back his [the complainant's] things," Bailey shared from the prisoner's dock.

But his mother gave a different account, stressing that her son was a bully.

"Your Honour, him a my son and me wouldn't tell no lie. Him is a bully, him beat up everybody inna the community like him wah be the don. A true me a him mother make him nuh beat me too. Him a say a him fada house, but Your Honour, a me do everything up a NHT [National Housing Trust]. Him mash up my stall and me visually impaired and him nah help me," the witness shared.

"Both sides have a compelling story," Senior Parish Judge Sanchia Burrell said, before requesting a social enquiry report in the matter.

Bailey was made the subject of a fingerprint order and was remanded in custody until February 24, 2025 when he is to be sentenced.