Man’s gets involved in ‘husband and wife story’ and suffers

Dec 17, 2008 News

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… woman admits to beating him, smashing his windscreen

“Your Worship, if I de had me razor with me it woulda be a murder, not an assault,” were the words of 53-year-old Sabina Isaacs of Block 22 Squatting Area, Linden, to Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.
It was alleged that the accused on December 12, at Lombard Street, broke one car windscreen property of Kenneth Welcome. She pleaded guilty and offered an explanation.
According to the woman, she had just returned from Berbice after collecting a package that had been sent by her daughter. She further told the court that she took a car to the Linden bus park and it charged her $1000. The woman said that this shortened her bus fare for Linden.
She explained that she slept in Georgetown that night and went to her husband the following morning to “ask for the money for her return to Linden”.
“Your worship, I went to ask my husband for the money and this man telling me husband not to give me.” She said that she picked up a “piece of wood bluffing meh husband for the money”.
The woman said that her husband ran into his workplace and locked himself inside. After that happened Kenneth Welcome came to her and said, “It shoulda be me.”
“So I asked him if he was talking to me, because Your Worship I never see this man before and he can’t speak to me like that,” Isaacs said.
She further told the court that the man picked up a piece of wood, advanced on her, and dealt blows to her hand and back. She said that after this happened she picked up a piece of wood and hit him back.
Isaacs said that she and the man had a scuffle and she was beating him with the wood. After they were separated the woman said that she was walking away when the same man told her not to walk by his car.
“My Worship, I didn’t even know that this car was he own; is he mek I know.”
Isaacs said that after he told her not to walk by the car she told him: “ Ohh… is you car!!” And she picked up a piece of wood and struck the window.
She contended that it was
(Continued on page 14)“Your Worship, if I de had me razor with me it woulda be a murder, not an assault,” were the words of 53-year-old Sabina Isaacs of Block 22 Squatting Area, Linden, to Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.
It was alleged that the accused on December 12, at Lombard Street, broke one car windscreen property of Kenneth Welcome. She pleaded guilty and offered an explanation.
According to the woman, she had just returned from Berbice after collecting a package that had been sent by her daughter. She further told the court that she took a car to the Linden bus park and it charged her $1000. The woman said that this shortened her bus fare for Linden.
She explained that she slept in Georgetown that night and went to her husband the following morning to “ask for the money for her return to Linden”.
“Your worship, I went to ask my husband for the money and this man telling me husband not to give me.” She said that she picked up a “piece of wood bluffing meh husband for the money”.
The woman said that her husband ran into his workplace and locked himself inside. After that happened Kenneth Welcome came to her and said, “It shoulda be me.”
“So I asked him if he was talking to me, because Your Worship I never see this man before and he can’t speak to me like that,” Isaacs said.
She further told the court that the man picked up a piece of wood, advanced on her, and dealt blows to her hand and back. She said that after this happened she picked up a piece of wood and hit him back.
Isaacs said that she and the man had a scuffle and she was beating him with the wood. After they were separated the woman said that she was walking away when the same man told her not to walk by his car.
“My Worship, I didn’t even know that this car was he own; is he mek I know.”
Isaacs said that after he told her not to walk by the car she told him: “ Ohh… is you car!!” And she picked up a piece of wood and struck the window.
She contended that it was because Welcome had hit her that she broke the window screen in revenge. She added that if she had walked with her “razor” it would not have been an assault but a murder.
“Ya Worship, I woulda bust open he belly and put he in a salt bag,” she told the court. She said that the man was too “personal” and he should have stayed out of husband-and-wife story.
She was placed on $25,000 bail and is to make her next court appearance on January 20, 2009.
Also appearing before the said magistrate was Gregory Howes, 38, of East Ruimveldt Housing Scheme.
He is accused of stealing a $60,000 gold chain from Ruth-Ann Edwards on December 7. He pleaded not guilty.
According to Howes, he had nothing to do with the chain being stolen. He said that he was not even in town the day when the virtual complainant was robbed. He further told the court that it was only because Edwards is the wife of a police officer that they are making such a claim.
Howes said that when the police came to arrest him they took him into the cemetery and beat him in his head. The accused tendered a document showing that he was not in town on the day in question, but he was helping his sister who was getting married.
He was placed on self bail and is to make his next court appearance on January 27, 2009.

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