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Smashed glass door, shovel blows lead to jail

Jul 03, 2008 News

Cotton Field businessman/rice farmer, Azaad Bacchus, 59, was given a six-week jail term sentence for lashing Mark Simon several times with a shovel stick but because of an appeal on the grounds of severity of sentence he is out on $25,000 bail.
This occurred on Tuesday when both men appeared before Magistrate Faith McGusty at the Anna Regina Magistrate’s Court.
Mark Simon, on the other hand, will serve a three-month jail term for smashing one glass door belonging to Azaad Bacchus.  The door valued $90,000.
Bacchus was charged with unlawful wounding while Simon was charged indictably with malicious damage to property.  Simon sustained severe injuries to the face and hand. Both parties pleaded guilty to the separate charges
The police reported that on June 10, last at Cotton Field Village, Essequibo Coast, Simon armed himself with some stones and stood outside Bacchus’s home. He then pelted three stones at Bacchus house, breaking his glass door in the process.
When questioned by Magistrate Mc Gusty about the reason for pelting stones at Mr. Bacchus’s home, Simon replied that he had no reason.
And although Mr. Bacchus begged for leniency the magistrate told him he should not have taken the law into his own hand.

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