On Thursday 17th September 2020, Nekomo Alston Homer a 29-year-old, of St Vincent, stood before Magistrate Ramdass at the Scarborough Second Virtual Magistrate Court and plead guilty to entering Trinidad and Tobago sometime in the month of July of 2020, illegally failing to report to an Immigration Officer and Beaching the Deportation Order previously served on him.
Homer who was previously sent back to his country of birth by the Immigration Department, returned to Tobago illegally other than a legal port of entry.
When asked by the Magistrate, why he came to Tobago, he explained he came to look for his girlfriend who he did not see in five years and to purchase school supplies for his daughter.
Homer was convicted and sentenced to Six Months Hard for entering the country illegally and failing to report to an Immigration Officer, and Three Months Hard Labour on Breaching the Deportation Order. Both sentences are to run concurrently.
Wpc Price attached to the Scarborough Police Station laid the charges.
