A labourer charged with breaching the Correctional Act pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 days' imprisonment when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's (RM) Court yesterday.

He is Everald McCreath, 23, from Hectors River, Portland. Allegations are that McCreath, who at the time was remanded for murder at the General Penitentiary, arrived at the Circuit Court on Kings Street, downtown Kingston to answer to the charge.

Further allegations are that while the police were conducting search and surveillance duty, a transparent plastic bag with 20 parcels of vegetable matter resembling ganja was found hidden in his underwear. He was subsequently arrested and charged.

When Senior RM Judith Pusey asked him why he had the drugs in his possession, he said, "Is an inmate mi see and him say dem nuh look like dem ago search mi cause mi look like a mental man."