Jailed for escaping

Today should be the day that Cassian Lyttle tastes freedom again after spending just one week at Her Majesty’s Prison.{{more}}

Lyttle, 28 of Redemption Sharpes was sentenced to one-week imprisonment by Chief Magistrate Sonya Young for escaping police custody. He was also charged with stealing one handcuff and was ordered to pay compensation of $150.

The court heard on July 16, police officers from the Old Montrose Police Station went to the defendant’s home to arrest him on a warrant for non-payment of fines. He was met there, and the officers placed the handcuffs on Lyttle while they waited in Lyttle’s porch for the rain to cease to take him to the police station.

In the presence of the two officers, Lyttle jumped over the porch wall and ran up an embankment to his freedom.

It was not until July 26 that police apprehended him at Redemption Sharpes.

When Lyttle appeared at the Serious Offences Court on Monday, he pleaded guilty to the charges and told the Magistrate that he used a hacksaw to cut the chain that joins the handcuff. The handcuffs are yet to be recovered.

Magistrate Young also placed him on a bond to keep the peace for one year in the sum of $500 or in default spend three months in prison.