Wife beater goes to jail for two months

Apr 07, 2010 News

A man who was found in breach of two counts of using threatening language to his wife, assault, and damage to property, was jailed for two months on the assault charges, yesterday and placed on $10,000 bail on each of the threatening language charges, after he appeared before Magistrate Faith Mc Gusty at the Anna Regina Magistrate’s Court. He was also fined $10,000 on the damage to property charge.
It was reported that on March 21, last, and again on April 4, Wally Reid, of Richmond Housing Scheme, unlawfully and maliciously damaged his wife’s blouse that she was wearing at the time. He also threatened to kill his spouse.
Reid, who pleaded guilty, told the court that he did not threaten his wife but admitted to tearing her blouse.
Seema Singh, the wife, who was also present at Court, amidst tears told the court that she and Reid lived together for 12 years and that union produced two children, aged 8 and 10. She said that her husband who is a small income earner and a butcher by profession moved out of their home and was living with another woman just four doors away.
Singh said that on the day in question her husband came home took out his food and sat at the table to have his dinner. She said that she got up after realizing that her husband had come home and emptied the plate with the contents in the sink. She said her husband dealt her four slaps to her face and forced her back into the house when she tried to escape through the back door, tearing her blouse in the process.
She said that after slapping her, her husband managed to force her outside of the house and dealt her five cuffs to the head.
She recounted that by this time her neighbours had to intervene. The troubled wife told the court that she worked effortlessly alongside her husband and she is now fed up of having to contend with his verbal and physical abuse.
Reid, after admitting to the court what he had done and realizing that he was in hot water, begged the magistrate to give him another chance. However the magistrate told Reid that his wife didn’t deserve any of the abuse he imposed on her.
He will have to return to court on June 19 to answer the threatening language charges.
Meanwhile, a teenager who denied taking a distant relative’s vehicle without the owner’s consent was slapped with four charges, yesterday, when he also appeared before Magistrate Faith Mc Gusty.
Eighteen-year-old Travis Persaud, of Nightingale Street, Anna Regina, was charged with taking a vehicle without the owner’s consent, breach of insurance, dangerous driving and exceeding the prescribed limit of the use of alcohol.
According to a police report, it is alleged that Persaud on April 3, last, stole motor car PKK6798, belonging to Dave Chappell of La Belle Alliance and was proceeding at a fast rate south along the Richmond Public Road, before he was apprehended by the police.
The report further stated that Persaud had to make a swerve to avoid coming into contact with a child. It was also reported that the car eventually ended up in a trench on the western side of the road.
A penalty of a $40,000 fine was imposed for each of the charges of dangerous driving and breach of insurance, while there was a fine of $30,000 for being an unlicenced driver.
An additional fine of $7,500 was imposed on the charge of exceeding the prescribed limit of the use of alcohol.
And for the charge of taking a vehicle without the owner’s consent, bail was granted in the sum of $20,000.
Mr. Chappell, the owner of the vehicle, was present in court and denied giving permission to Persaud. He told the court that the accused was a distant relative, contrary to what Persaud had initially indicated to the court. He had said that he was Chappell’s nephew.
Persaud is scheduled to return to court on May 19.

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