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Hairdresser deported

After a short but tumultuous stay in Bermuda, British hairdresser Jacqueline Boateng was deported on Tuesday.

Boateng, 32, was escorted to the British Airways flight Tuesday night after a weeks-long effort to get her out of the country.

In the brief two months between when she arrived in Bermuda on September 4 and when she was deported, Boateng quit her job (breaking her contract), was arrested three times, appeared in court numerous times, spent almost a week in jail and had two orders signed for her deportation.

Police finally tracked her down in Somerset on Monday and held on to her until she was placed aboard the departing plane.

Boateng had arrived in Bermuda on a three-month work permit but just over a month later, walked away from her job at Ja?Nauzi?s salon.

Details surrounded her troubled stay on the Island emerged at her trial last Friday, where she was found not guilty of unlawfully remaining in Bermuda without permission.

The owner of the salon who brought her to the Island, Oswald Hinds, said she walked off the job without any notice, on October 7, breaking her contract with Ja?Nauzi?s.

Mr. Hinds then sent a letter of termination along with Boateng?s work permit to Senior Immigration Officer Donna Hollis.

At her trial, the court heard that Insp. Hollis told Boateng on October 13 that she could remain in Bermuda until October 28, on the condition that she bring her travel documents to Immigration.

But Boateng never complied.

On October 25, Insp. Hollis called the defendant asking for proof she was leaving the country by October 28.

Subsequently, Boateng was arrested on October 25 for not complying. She was held in custody until her trial last Friday.

?I?ve always had the intention to go back to Great Britain ? because it is great,? Boateng said at the trial. ?I don?t see the point of this case because I want to leave Bermuda.?

She waved a British Airways ticket at Magistrate Archie Warner and said she had informed Insp. Hollis of her travel plans.

Boateng said she had been unaware when she quit her job, that she would not be able to stay in Bermuda.

Finding her not guilty, Mr. Warner said that he was not satisfied that the defendant did not satisfy with the condition of bringing in her travel documents.

?I am of the view that she was allowed to stay in Bermuda until October 28 but she was incarcerated and could not comply,? said Mr. Warner.

But he ordered her to leave Bermuda on the next flight out.

Boateng broke into tears after the verdict but moments later began cursing at Crown counsel Vinette Graham-Allen and Immigration officers when she was handcuffed outside of the courtroom.

?I am not going back to prison,? she said. ?Why are you doing this to me?

?You bitches ? I don?t want to stay in Bermuda.?

Ms Graham-Allen told , Boateng was arrested after the court appearance as Governor Sir John Vereker had signed an order to remand her in custody after the verdict.

Minister of Labour, Home Affairs and Public Safety Randy Horton also said he had signed a deportation order for Boateng last Friday.

But Boateng was released from custody that day after defence lawyer Elizabeth Christopher filed a Habeas Corpus on her behalf.

Boateng was released on bail pending conditions and was to leave the Island voluntarily.

When she did not leave as planned last weekend, the deportation order was reinstated.

Permanent Secretary of Labour, Home Affairs, and Public Safety Robert Horton said that Boateng was eventually apprehended at a Somerset home on Monday night and deported Tuesday.