A 24-year-old solider was given a suspended prison sentence yesterday for missing 18 Regiment training sessions.

Eamonn Shane Gibbons, of Douglas Drive, Smith?s Parish, was sentenced to jail for three months, suspended for nine months.

Gibbons also received a warning from Magistrate Edward King: ?If you come back, you will get six months inside.?

Gibbons failed to attend 18 training sessions.

Gibbons said: ?I?ve been experiencing family difficulties. I?ve been kicked out of my home a few times and don?t have a job.