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Woman douses man with urine

May 14, 2011 News

A woman and her male neighbour who were involved in a fight over walking rights ended up in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court on separate charges after she doused him with urine and he in turned beat her with pieces of wood and threatened to kill her.
They both appeared in court on Friday before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo to answer separate charges.
The man, Michael Sherwood, called ‘Barret’, 32, of Caracas, Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, is charged with assault causing actual bodily harm. In this case the victim is Denise Wills, 40, also of Caracas
According to prosecutor Corporal Orin Joseph, the two individuals live in separate houses on the same plot of land.  Sherwood would usually have to walk through Wills’s yard to get to his house.
On May 7, last, at approximately 18:00hrs, Sherwood was on his way home along with his brother. The court heard that as he was about to pass through Wills’s yard, the woman objected to them walking there.
After some exchange of words they men continued. Wills in turn went inside her house and returned with a bottle of urine and saturated Sherwood with the liquid.
Sherwood in turn beat her with a stick, which broke; he then collected another piece of wood and continued the beating.
He allegedly kept telling her, ‘You Nah gon dead? I gon kill you.’
The court heard that the man then left and returned with a cutlass and threatened to kill the woman who by then was left lying on the ground.
The matter was reported and Sherwood was arrested and charged.
Sherwood, in his defence, told the court that as he and his brother were on their way home the woman drenched him with the urine and pelted him with a piece of wood .
He said that he in turn picked up the piece of wood and threw it at her.
Wills pleaded guilty to soaking Sherwood with the bottle of urine and was placed on a one-year bond to keep the peace,  which if breached could land her in prison for one month.
Sherwood however pleaded not guilty and was placed on $10,000 bail.
In tears, the dreadlocked man pleaded with the magistrate for mercy and managed to get his bail reduced to $5,000.
But this also drew fountain of tears from Sherwood causing the magistrate to further reduce the bail to $2000.  The matter will continue on July 22.

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