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Article by February 25, 2021
The Barbados Court of Appeal will tomorrow hand down its decision on a magisterial sentence appeal brought by Jamaican visitor Dean George Scott who is currently serving six months at HMP Dodds for breaching quarantine directives.
That decision will be delivered at 10 a.m. during a virtual sitting of the No. 1 Supreme Court.
On December 29 last year Scott, a 49-year-old mason, who was staying at a hotel in Worthing, Christ Church, pleaded guilty to contravening
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.