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Women fight over man, both remanded

May 12, 2012 News

 

 

Two women, one a victim and the other a defendant, will both be spending the weekend in the lockups after they were remanded to jail by Magistrate Hazel Octive- Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
Alicia Mentore, the defendant, and Nancy London, the complainant, were placed in state custody after a fight broke out between the two women over a man with whom the defendant once shared a relationship.
The police said that on May 7, at Thomas Street, Kitty, Mentore unlawfully and maliciously wounded Dexter Smith, the father of her children. She also assaulted his reputed wife, London. To the charges the woman pleaded guilty and sought to explain.
The police said that on the day of the incident Mentore went to Smith’s residence. When she arrived, Smith answered the door and upon seeing the defendant he scolded her for turning up at his home.
As the man and the mother of his children spoke, the police said that the other victim, London came to the door and asked Smith about Mentore’s presence at his residence. It was at this point, the prosecutor said, that Mentore pushed the door open, hitting London in the face in the process.
An argument ensued between the two women and Mentore, it was said, abused both of the victims. The police said that Mentore then began to hit the father of her children resulting in the man going to the police station to make a report.
Medical forms were given to the victims and reports were provided in relation to injuries the persons received.
Mentore had a different story from the prosecution.
She said that her former partner had informed her that he and the other woman were not involved in a relationship and that she could come at his home at any time.
The woman said that on the day of the incident she went to Smith’s home to collect money for her child when her former sister-in-law answered the door and told her that Smith was not at home.
She however pushed the door open, entered the house and went straight to the bedroom of her former partner and entered.
The woman continued that while in the room she noticed the two victims lying in bed. The man rose and took her out of the bedroom and asked why she was at his premises. The woman said the man then told her that he was going to get a pair of pants and that they would go outside the house to talk.
But as the man exited the bedroom, the other woman started pulling Smith back into the room while Mentore held on to Smith’s pants, pulling him outside of the bedroom.
But before Mentore could conclude her story the court injected and offered the defendant a scenario where she could have easily avoided a confrontation if she had taken a certain course of action.
It was later revealed by Smith that both women had scrambled each other in what he maintained was a fight. He said his current companion was bent on sending Mentore to jail despite him requesting the matter to come to an end for the sake of his children.
Smith defended the mother of his children after his current partner had alleged that Mentore had inflicted certain injuries on her. Smith claimed that the marks on London’s body were already there since she recently underwent a surgery.
Having heard enough and contemplating what should be done in the matter, the court opted to remand all three parties but for the sake of the children involved, both females were remanded to jail until Monday while the father was not.
The Magistrate said that by Monday her mind would have had time to study what action should be taken.
Mentore however pleaded with the court that she had not done anything to the defendant and it was she who was the victim. She however enjoyed every moment of the victim’s misfortune. She laughed at London all the way to the holding area.

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