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Man admits to damaging church

A man who earlier this year admitted stealing from a church pleaded guilty to damaging a second church out of anger.

Andrew Arorash, 39, of no fixed abode, appeared in Magistrates' Court on Tuesday charged with trespassing on October 7.

According to Crown counsel Larissa Burgess, Police visited the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Hamilton Parish after an alarm was triggered.

When they arrived at the church, officers saw two windows had been broken and a door, which was locked magnetically, appeared to have been forced.

Arorash admitted to Police that he had come to the church that night to sleep on the building's porch. He later admitted to Police that he had smashed the window and hit the door out of anger.

Arorash told Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo that he had suffered a drug relapse and became enraged during the night.

"I was vexed," he said. "I felt like mashing something up."

Earlier this year Arorash pleaded guilty to stealing eleven laptops from the Court Services Building during two burglaries and stealing $20 from the Anglican Cathedral last December.

Mr. Tokunbo ordered Arorash to be held in remand until today to attend Drug Treatment Court.