yesterday, after losing two appeals in one afternoon.

Lorenzo (Toronto) MacDonald Darrell won a bid to have a conviction for attacking a Policeman sent back to Magistrates' Court on Thursday.

But he was yesterday ordered to see out a nine-month prison sentence for breaking and entering.

And he was jailed for three more years for receiving a stolen $600 scooter, disqualified driving and failing to stop for Police.

Acting Puisne Judge Michael Mello doled out the sentence despite lengthy mitigation arguments by defence lawyer Phil Perinchief and a five-minute plea by Darrell himself.

The 33-year-old defendant, from Random Lane in Warwick, will be back in Magistrates' Court on Friday to plead again to a charge of grievious bodily harm against a Police officer.

Darrell was accused of the assault after the stolen scooter incident, on Middle Road in Southampton on December 8, 1996.

He originally pleaded guilty to GBH but complained magistrate Arthur Hodgson had not allowed him to choose between a Supreme Court or Magistrates' Court trial.

And yesterday, Mr. Justice Mello dismissed his appeal against the scooter charges.

Mr. Perinchief had wanted the entire case sent back to magistrates, despite his client's guilty plea, claiming Mr. Hodgson had not followed proper procedure.

He also argued unsuccessfully for the court to ignore "spent offences'', after it emerged Darrell had built up a string of previous convictions since 1990.

Darrell is now disqualified from driving for four years, as well as looking ahead to prison.

His three-year term at Westgate will be tacked onto the end of the nine months Darrell is already serving for breaking and entering.

Mr. Justice Mello refused to overturn Darrell's conviction for breaking into a house on North Shore Road in Pembroke on October 15, 1997.

The judge dismissed arguments by Mr. Perinchief that the key prosecution witness, Steven Lewis, was discredited because he "lied'' in court.

Darrell's lawyer claimed Lewis lied about beating the accused two days after the break-in.

But Crown Counsel Lesley Basden said the beating incident was "peripheral'', saying Darrell escaped from the house he robbed by jumping over the fence into Lewis' yard.

Mr. Mello said: "I'm fully satisfied that again, weighing up all the evidence, the conviction of Mr. Darrell should be supported.

"The magistrate didn't arrive at any decision that was wrong in law to justify setting the conviction aside.

"Accordingly there was no miscarriage of justice and therefore I dismiss the appeal.''