Inmate delays plea on jail fire charges
Man doesn't enter pleas to arson charges, asks for more time
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A provincial inmate who told the court earlier this week he intended to resolve allegations he started a fire at the Shediac jail wasn’t ready to do anything with his case on Friday.
Dylan Alexander Jackson, 28, of Doaktown, was in Moncton provincial court on Tuesday and claimed he was prepared to plead to his arson charges on the spot, if he had a few minutes to call his lawyer. Instead the court put the case over to Friday to give him more time to follow through on his desire to resolve the charges right away.
Instead, Jackson was in court by video from the Saint John jail on Friday, no further ahead. Instead of entering pleas, he asked for more time to talk to his lawyer, which the judge allowed, adjourning his case to Wednesday, when his co-accused will appear.
It had appeared so certain Jackson would deal with the charges when he was in court on Tuesday that the judge adjourned the co-accused’s case to Wednesday to address what remains of the charges after Jackson pleaded guilty. Instead, Jackson and Hunter Nash England, 21, of Moncton, will appear at the same time next week to enter pleas.
The two men were charged in late April with mischief for doing more than $5,000 in damage to a jail cell at the Southeast Regional Correctional Centre, committing arson and possessing incendiary material on Jan. 10.
Both men are in remanded awaiting trials on unrelated matters.
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