Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner sentenced a 31-year-old draft dodger to three months in prison yesterday.

Vincent Outerbridge of Hilltop Drive, Hamilton Parish, pleaded guilty to failing to appear for Regiment duty on four occasions between June and July and missing 46 training days.

In May this year he was sentenced to three months imprisonment, suspended for nine months, for dodging his duties.

Outerbridge said he had personal problems when his grandfather died and his grandmother was ill. With only two months left to serve in the Regiment, he pleaded for another chance but Mr. Warner was not swayed.

He said Outerbridge had already been given another chance as this was his second appearance in court.

?The system will catch up with you some time,? he said and activated the earlier sentence.

Smiling, Outerbridge asked if he still had to serve in the Regiment when he got released, as he only had two months left.

His smile quickly faded when Mr. Warner gave him a definite ?yes?.

Dennie Paynter, 24, of Great Bay Road in St. David?s, also appeared in court for failing to appear for duty with the Bermuda Regiment.

He pleaded guilty to missing 12 training sessions between September 20 and November 30.

Paynter told Mr. Warner that his girlfriend had given birth to twins. Now that he is a father, he doesn?t want to go to camp.

He was fined $600 and given a six-month sentence, suspended for 18 months.

Later, both Police and Regiment officers gave chase down Reid Street when a man, who appeared in the court on a speeding violation, turned out to be a draft dodger as well.

Tulkeo Leshore, 23, fled the court but was caught by Police who promptly slapped him in handcuffs and took him back.

Mr. Warner charged Leshore for the speeding violation and gave him a $750 fine and disqualified him from driving a car for one year.

Still in handcuffs, Leshore was escorted from court into the arms of the Regiment.

If Leshore had not missed his court date on Wednesday, he would not have been spotted by the Regiment who were in court yesterday for the other cases.