Wanderer bites security guard, gets sound thrashing

Aug 17, 2012 News

A 25-year-old wanderer was yesterday reprimanded on a common assault charge after the Court found that the “sound thrashing” he received from the victim was good enough to weigh the offence.
Magistrate Hazel Octive- Hamilton, who presided over the matter at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, allowed defendant, Sookraj Ramnarine, off with a warning when he faced her for biting a security guard during a scuffle.
The defendant was accused of committing the offence on August 14 against Wilbert Horatio at Prashad Nagar, Georgetown.
Prosecutor Burgett Grant, in addressing the court, said that the defendant is a known character to the police and herself. She said the defendant has no permanent place of residence as he would usually hang around the vicinity of the Stabroek Market.
Grant said that on the day in question, the victim around 04:30 hours, was on duty in Prasad Nagar, stationed in his guard hut. She said that he heard a strange noise, looked around and noticed the defendant pushing his hands through the guard hut louvers window trying to grab his hand.
The security guard, Grant said, raised an alarm and the defendant jumped the fence and started to run away. Grant further said that the victim gave chase and subsequently caught up with him. She said a scuffle ensued between the victim and the defendant who subsequently bit the guard on his left hand.
The matter was later reported to the police station.
The defendant, however, defended himself by saying that he would work for the owners of the house where the guard worked. He said that on the day in question, he went to the location and was calling the guard to ask him for something to eat.
He said the guard, however, attacked him and started to beat him up. “He hold on pon me and start beat me,” the defendant said. “Then he tell me is only thief man does deh round dis hour.”
The defendant then showed the court the marks about his body and it was determined that the man’s marks and bruises were consistent with him being beaten up.
The Magistrate described the man’s condition as receiving a “sound thrashing” and that she said was his penalty. The Magistrate advised that she could not give the defendant more than what he already received. She also advised that it is a known Guyanese notion that “thief man walk late.”
The Magistrate, however, reprimanded the man on the charge and urged him to stay out of trouble.

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