Mechanic reportedly terrorises sister, niece

Jan 06, 2009 News

Clayton Waddy, 56, of 421 North East La Penitence, yesterday appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson to face charges of threatening behaviour and several counts of assault.
On November 24, 2008, the accused allegedly abused his sister, Sharon Waddy, and her daughter, Merlene Williams. He was also said to have assaulted them.
Waddy, a mechanic by profession, pleaded not guilty. His lawyer said that it all started from a ‘family feud over property’ that was left by their father for another sister who currently resides overseas. The patriarch passed away some time in 2007.
Ms. Williams told the court that, on November 4 last, she and her mother were at home when her uncle came home drunk and asked her to remove the curtain that was placed over his bedroom door.
She said that she was on her phone at the time, when ‘he started to act up.’
Williams added that her mother told her to take the curtain down, to avoid an argument. The young woman said that when she was about to do so, the defendant picked up two chairs and threw them at her, behaving badly and calling her names.
Her mother said that he grabbed hold of her daughter and began banging her head on the wall, telling her that she (Williams) “is not a Waddy.”
Ms. Waddy stated that she thinks that, because of her daughter, the defendant is behaving the way he is.
“I tried pulling him off of her, but he went into his room and came out with a cutlass, running after her.
“I ran into my mother’s room, and tried dialling the police from inside there,” Williams stated.
“He kept slashing at the door with the cutlass, destroying the blind in the process.”
According to the defendant’s lawyer, since the property went over to the sister living abroad, there has been ‘tension in the household.’
Ms Waddy stated that since she was the one who had taken care of her father when he was ill and unable to take care of himself, she, along with five other siblings, believes that it was unfair for her to not have first preference to the property.
“He and the other sister are very close, so he thinks that he can say and do whatever he thinks.”
Magistrate Robertson said that since the property legally belonged to their other sister who is living abroad, neither of them should behave the way they are behaving.
She placed the defendant on $15,000 bail for threatening behaviour, and $35,000 bail for the assault charges.
The accused is to re-appear in court on February 6 next.

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