Two men who deny taking part in a Christmas crime spree will be spending the holiday in prison.

Swayne Eulette Gibbons, 40, and Kevin Leroy Gladstone Butterfield, 32, appeared in Magistrates' Court on Christmas Eve to face eight counts of theft between them. Both vehemently denied the charges.

The court alleges that both Gibbons and Butterfield entered a tool shed on Trinity Church Road in Hamilton Parish between December 12 and 19 and took a quantity of tools.

They are also accused of having stolen a Mitsubishi Lancer motor car from Hamilton Parish during the same time period and said to have stolen a 46" LCD Samsung television, a men's Rolex watch, a Sony camcorder and an Apple iPod from a property on McGall's Bay Road in Smiths. The total value of the items stolen was $9,094.

The men were represented by Duty Counsel Larry Scott who asked the Magistrate to release them in the "spirit of Christmas".

"I'm a Scrooge," replied Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo, who remanded both defendants in custody until January 26.