A man was sent to prison for six months on Friday for repeatedly failing to attend the Bermuda Regiment.

Jonathan Dale Hayes, 24, was enlisted in the Regiment in 2003 but has failed to show up more than 100 times.

The man, who lives on Park Lane, Devonshire, has been hauled before a Magistrate previously and reprimanded for failing to fulfil his duty.

In May 2005, he was given a six-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, for failing to show up to 16 sessions of Regiment training. In September 2005 he was brought before the courts again and given another suspended sentence for missing an additional 19 sessions of Regiment training.

Crown counsel Cindy Clarke did not say why Hayes suspended sentence from May was not enacted when he appeared before the court again in September.

Yesterday, Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo said Hayes had been given multiple chances yet continues to flout the laws of the court.

He appeared in court yesterday for failing to attend 66 Regiment training sessions since February 2005.

Hayes said: "I want to say sorry to the courts and Regiment."

The 24-year-old was sent to prison for six months and his two suspended sentences will run concurrently to his current sentence.