02 Aug 05 By BYRON MCDANIEL, STAR Writer

TWO PROMINENT Manchester men were each sentenced to two years at hard labour suspended for two years in Jamaica's Manchester Circuit Court for buggery.


Azariah Morris, 52, an accountant, and land surveyor Keith Jackson, 60, from Mandeville, Manchester, were sentenced by High Court Judge, Her Ladyship Ingrid Mangatal. The men were convicted by a seven-member jury last Thursday.

The charge arose after the men were reportedly caught by the police having sex while watching blue movies at Rembrandt Close in October 1999.

The long-drawn out in-camera trial drew less attention than during the preliminary hearing when they were jeered and insulted by spectators, who turned up outside the Mandeville RM court to see them.