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Serial offender locked up

A Sandys man has been remanded after admitting a string of offences from trespassing to escaping custody.Troy Harris, 21, pleaded guilty to entering a Harrington Sound Road home as a trespasser and causing wilful damage to a window in the home on May 15.He also admitted assaulting Markel Smith and causing her actual bodily harm in an unrelated incident that took place the next day in the Government Administration Building on Parliament Street. He further pleaded guilty to escaping lawful custody on Court Street on May 27.However, Harris denied stealing a Suzuki cycle on May 17.“I’m guilty for receiving stolen goods sir,” he told Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner. “I never took the vehicle.”Crown counsel Carrington Mahoney said that at around midday on May 15, Wayne Augustus was in his kitchen when he noticed Harris on his property. He watched as he walked around the house, but when he went to investigate, Harris could not be found.A short while later the complainant left the property.He returned later and found Harris standing in his living room. Harris told Mr Augustus that he was looking for the complainant’s daughter, Tiffany. He left after he was told she didn’t live there.Mr Augustus later noticed that a bedroom window had been forced open and could no longer be locked.Harris told the court that he had opened the window to shout for his friend, Tiffany, and the incident was not a “burglary situation”.In the second incident, Mr Mahoney told the court that Harris had aggressively confronted Ms Smith about why his phone, which was in her name, had been disconnected. When she tried to return to her desk, Harris blocked her path and struck her in the face, causing swelling.Regarding the charge of escaping custody, Mr Mahoney said that on May 27 Harris had been arrested and was being taken to the Hamilton Police Station when he opened the car door and ran from officers while handcuffed. Officers later discovered Harris crouching in bushes near Place’s Place.Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner ordered a social inquiry report be carried out and remanded Harris into custody until July 12 for sentencing and for the matter of the stolen cycle to be mentioned.Harris pleaded to be released on bail, but Mr Warner responded: “You don’t come to court when you are supposed to. When you are arrested, you run away from police. You are remanded into custody, that’s the end of the matter.”