By Tashieka Mair, Star Writer

western bureau:

A father of nine who was trying to leave Jamaica on fraudulent travel documents in the hope of seeing his wife and children, was fined $30,000 or three months in prison in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.

Wayne Kelly, 33, of Mountain View Avenue in Kingston, pleaded guilty to uttering forged documents.

Kelly confessed to the court that he was given voluntary departure from the United States for illegal entry on a traffic offence in September 2006 and that he was attempting to return to see his wife and two-month-old child who had been in an accident.

He was arrested at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay on December 30 after he tried to use a forged Canadian citizenship card in another name to leave the island.

Kelly checked in to board a Continental flight to New York and presented a Canadian Citizenship Card in the name of Dave Dwayne Kelly. However, a close inspection of the document showed that it lacked several security features.

When cautioned he told the officer, "Mi jus' waan see mi yute dem boss."