Jamaican national, Dean Scott, has won the appeal against his six-month sentence in Barbados late last year for breaching the eastern Caribbean island's COVID-19 protocols.
The Barbados Court of Appeal, in its decision on Thursday, ordered that Scott's prison sentence be reduced to two months.
The decision was handed down by Barbados Chief Justice Sir Patterson Cheltenham, and Justices of Appeal Rajendra Narine and Margaret Reifer.
In reacting to the court's decision, Jamaican-born attorney practising in Barbados, Michelle Russell, said the effect of the judgment is that "Dean Scott was deemed a free man from the time the court hearing concluded this morning (Thursday), only subject to the observance of the strict COVID 19 protocols for his safe release from prison."