insurance salesman Andrew Morris, who had been jailed since June for not paying his $8,000 bill at the plush Elbow Beach Hotel.

A Police official yesterday confirmed that Morris was escorted to the Airport and placed on the British Airways flight to London on Tuesday night.

Immigration officials were not available to comment.

A British Airways spokesman confirmed that the near-full London flight departed on time at 8.10 p.m. Tuesday evening, bound for Gatwick Airport. But he was unable to say if the man was aboard when the aircraft left the Island, or if special security arrangements were in place.

The Manchester man would have been able to disembark at Gatwick at 6.50 a.m.

London time yesterday morning, and catch a one hour long 9.15 a.m. flight back to his home in Manchester.

Mr. Morris was hauled into Magistrates' Court after his $800-credit card limit left him short of an $8,000 hotel bill he racked up while staying at the resort.

A newspaper account at the time said that the business credit card came from Europe's biggest mutual insurance company, Standard Life, although the company insisted the man was not in Bermuda on business.

The deportee had also claimed that he had taken $24,000 from Standard Life -- a claim the company disputed -- and asked for a like sum to tell them how. The insurer declined.

The man's father was quoted as saying that Morris was "unwell''.