A COLOMBIAN was on Friday sentenced to three months imprisonment for entering Guyana illegally.

40-year-old Aziel Sanchez appeared before Senior Magistrate, Fabayo Azore and denied the charge which alleged that on September 30, 2018, at Lethem, he entered Guyana by crossing a land frontier and did not present himself to an immigration officer.

With the assistance of an interpreter, Sanchez told the court that he suffers from colon cancer. He also explained that he was a destitute in Brazil and Colombia.

Sanchez told the court that when he came to Guyana he was staying in the ‘bush’.
He was sentenced to three months imprisonment by the magistrate and will be deported back to his country after serving his sentence.