A Sandys man has been remanded into custody until tomorrow morning for breaching his bail conditions.

Magistrates’ Court heard today that 24-year-old Troy Harris, who was required to wear an electronic monitoring device (EMD) and abide by an 8pm to 6am nightly curfew, left his premises for ten minutes on April 12.

Prosecutor Alan Richards told the court that the electronic monitoring device registered Mr Harris in the area of Woody’s Sports Bar in Sandys at about 9.37pm.

By 9.47pm, the device showed that the defendant had returned to his mother’s house.

Police attended the premises, arrested Mr Harris and took him to Hamilton Police Station.

Mr Harris told the court that he had left his charger at his uncle’s house — located near the bar — and that he went to pick it up because the battery on his EMD was flashing red.

“I thought it was the right thing to do, to get my charger and come right back,” Mr Harris said.

Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo remanded Mr Harris into custody until tomorrow morning, when he is due to stand trial with co-defendant Marcus Robinson.

Both men denied charges of trespassing and theft when they appeared in court on December 18.

Also in court, 24-year-old Keino Lambert, of Sandys, was remanded into custody for breaching his bail conditions.

The court heard that Lambert, who was required to wear an EMD and abide by a 6pm to 6am curfew, returned home late on April 6 and April 9, and that the device was inoperable on four occasions between April 8 and April 12 because it had not been charged.

Defence lawyer Aarion Mapp told the court that Mr Lambert had been delayed on both occasions and had notified the security company that he was running late.

But Mr Tokunbo said: “He’s not protecting or respecting his bail.”

He reminded Mr Lambert that the law required him to charge the EMD and remanded him into custody until further notice.

On December 31 last year, Mr Lambert pleaded not guilty to assaulting a man and causing him bodily harm on Christmas Day and a trail date was set for last week Friday.

The trial did not proceed and Mr Lambert is due back in court on Wednesday.

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