New Zealand Citizen Jailed for Allegedly Violating Perth Quarantine Four Times

A New Zealand citizen and Qld resident will spend the next 14 days in quarantine in a Perth jail cell after allegedly violating the hotel’s quarantine four times.

According to WAToday, Selu Cecil Thornley Siitia, 32, was ordered to self-quarantine for two weeks after arriving in Western Australia with a work pass on October 13.

Police allege he was not at Mont Clare Boutique Apartments in East Perth, where he was supposed to be when they arrived for a search around 3pm on Friday.

Instead, the police arrested Siitia outside the apartments.

He reportedly told them that he had dropped his phone off the balcony and gone to pick it up.

Later, hotel staff told police that they had found Siitia and a 30-year-old colleague from New South Wales playing cards and drinking together in their room during an earlier check.

Both are to be fined A $ 1000, while Siitia faced the Perth Magistrates Court via an audio link on Saturday morning after being charged with four counts of failure to comply with an instruction.

Now he has to go through a new 14-day quarantine in a solitary cell in Hakea prison and face court again on November 9.

WA recorded four new cases on Saturday, all of them returned travelers now in hotel quarantine.