guilty to breaking and entering.

Eugene McGowen "Jinx'' Darrell, 43, admitted breaking into PriceWaterhouseCooper's offices at Dorchester House on Church Street at about 5 a.m. on Sunday.

He told Police he was trying to find somewhere to sleep and something to eat.

The complainant, a partner at PriceWaterhouseCooper, said the office had been searched and he found a pack of Rizella cigarette papers.

When Acting Senior Magistrate Edward King asked Crown counsel Graveney Bannister for Jinx's previous record, Mr. Bannister held his index finger to his bottom lip and held the long sheet he was holding up to the ceiling light.

He said: "He has a somewhat lengthy record including several offences of breaking and entering.'' Mr. King said Jinx went in the building to steal because he was looking for food, and if he found any, he would have taken it.

Mr. King said: "You are an indigent man with no place to lay your head down.'' Jinx given place to lay his head Jinx told Mr. King he was supposed to start a job painting yesterday but he could not specify for whom or where.

When Jinx said he had been a painter "on and off'' for sometime, Mr. King said: "More off than on.'' Mr. King continued: "The court finds that the real answer to your problems are not within it's powers.

"Using the tools which the laws have laid down, which will not be the answer, I impose a term of six months imprisonment,'' he said.

As Mr. King continued, Darrell got up and began to walk out. Police stopped him and asked where he was going.

Jinx said: "I'm going away from here, away from him.'' pointing to Mr. King.

Mr. King finished his speech and Jinx was escorted back to Hamilton Police Station.