Tashieka Mair, Star Writer

WESTERN BUREAU

A deportee who was granted station bail for uttering a forged document had it revoked when he appeared before the Montego Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

Phillipia Wray, 30, pleaded guilty to uttering a forged document, and despite having been granted bail, Resident Magistrate Winsome Henry ordered him remanded as she needed more information as to the reason for his deportation and his police record.

Defence attorney George Duncan asked that Wray's bail be extended, as he is assisting with his mother's funeral arrangements. However, RM Henry said the matter would be disposed of before the funeral and upheld her decision to have him stay in jail.

She also expressed concern that the accused was granted station bail, given the information relayed to the court and the investigating officer.

"I need to know more about this man before I sentence him," she said. Wray is to be sentenced on October 27.

Wray arrived in the island on October 17, on an Air Jamaica flight from New York. He presented an immigration card and a Jamaican passport in the name Ian Garfield Gray to the immigration officer. The United States visa was not endorsed in the passport and he was therefore asked to produce the passport that contains the visa.

He told the immigration officer that he had lost the passport and was subsequently taken to the immigration office for an interview. During the interview, he admitted that the name and date of birth in the passport were incorrect, and that he was deported from the United States in 1998 but managed to return in 2002.

Wray said he returned to Jamaica after hearing of the death of his mother.