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Fight costs man $85,000 or jail

Aug 07, 2009 News

Twenty-year-old Sweenie ‘Swine’ Evans, of Mocha Arcadia, East Bank Demerara has been given the liberty of paying an $85,000 fine or face two months’ imprisonment. Evans pleaded guilty to two counts of assault causing actual bodily harm yesterday when he appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
He had earlier pleaded guilty to a charge, which stated that on July 29, last, at Mocha Arcadia he unlawfully assaulted Nicola Skeete, and her brother Rodwell Stevens.
Police Prosecutor Munilall Seetaram, said that the defendants and Evans are not on speaking terms.
On the day in question Evans saw Stevens and dealt him several blows to the head. The matter was later reported to the Providence Police Station.
Seetaram said that later the same day, Evans saw both Skeete and Stevens. The prosecutor said that the virtual complainants were heading home when Evans assaulted Skeete.
“He walked up to her and hit her numerous of times in the face which caused her to seek medical attention” Seetaram explained.
When given a chance to explain Evans said that Stevens had spit on him and that’s how the entire incident started. “They mother know that he “Skeete” got a nose problem”.

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