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Bus driver gets five months for chopping reputed wife

Mar 18, 2015 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News

City Magistrate Annette Singh sentenced a Sophia bus driver to five months imprisonment, after he was found guilty of chopping his reputed wife.
Leroy Johnson was found guilty as charged for the offence yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Particulars of the charge stated that on February 6, at the National Cultural Centre tarmac, he unlawfully assaulted Shonette Singh.
Police prosecutor Aduni Inniss told the court that the two parties had a misunderstanding and the man took a cutlass and chopped the woman on her hand.
The matter was reported to the police and he was subsequently arrested and charged.
Johnson was unrepresented throughout the trial. He pleaded not guilty to the offence on his first court appearance.
Both the victim and the defendant were place on a one-year bond to be on good behaviour. Failure to do so will result in them being imprisoned for one month.

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