One man, for love, crossed the ocean on his jet-ski to join his fiancé. He was arrested and sentenced to prison for breach of sentence.
A beautiful love story that ends in court. A man decided to take a jet-ski, cross the ocean to join his girlfriend he met in September and settled on the Isle of Man. The only problem is that Scotland, meanwhile, has banned docking of non-residents due to the Kovid-19 epidemic.
Desperate, the 28-year-old rented a jet-ski last Friday, a machine he had never flown before, aiming to rigorously make the 40-kilometer crossing.
According to him, the journey was to last only 40 minutes. But eventually it took more than four hours to reach the island, which was around 8 ° C in bumpy seas. After which, he had to walk another 24 kilometers to reach his girlfriend’s home, reports to the BBC, which cites documents from the legal process.
Four weeks in jail
Once in a nightclub with his fiancée, the young man was spotted by the police and arrested for illegal entry to the island.
A local judge sentenced him to four weeks in prison for imprisonment on the Isle of Man for “knowingly and premeditatedly violating” despite pleas from his lawyer to be indifferent.