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Monkey Mountain man jailed for 27 months

Oct 08, 2011 News

A resident of Monkey Mountain was yesterday sentenced to 27 months after he pleaded guilty to two charges of threatening behaviour and one charge of assault causing actual bodily harm.
Elmo King, who appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, was given the sentence after the prosecution related a series of violent acts the man committed in his community.
King caused actual bodily harm to his reputed wife, Carolina King, and threatened John King and Robeson Roth.
The court was told that between September 25 and September 30, last, while under the influence of alcohol, King had an argument with the woman (Carolina King) with whom he lives.
He dealt her several cuffs to the face. The man further placed a knife to the woman’s throat and threatened to kill her if she ever left him.
The court was told that he would normally get into problems when he drank, and between the days mentioned, armed with a knife he threatened Roth and John King who were trying to pacify him while he was in his drunken state.
Using a knife, according to the information of the prosecution, the man more than once threatened the Kings and Roth.
When asked if he was aware of his actions while committing the offences, Elmo King told the court he was under the influence of the beverages and did not know what he was doing.
But it transpired that the man was well aware of what he was doing since at different intervals he was able to recall what he had done and was able to tell the court why he acted in the way he did.
King in an effort to declare his right for his actions told the court that the woman’s family was the cause of him behaving the way he did. He said that his companion’s relatives were always involving themselves in their relationship, with the woman’s mother telling him she did not want him in the family.
The man also told the court that the mother was trying to move the girl out of the house and as such an argument occurred between him and his wife when he hit the woman.
King was sentenced to three months imprisonment each for three counts of threatening behaviour and 18 months for the assault of his reputed wife – a total of 27 months.

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