Husband in court for assaulting wife

Jadoo appeared in the Second San Fernando Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Brambhanan Dubay yesterday morning and pleaded guilty to the charge that yesterday morning, he assaulted his wife. The court police prosecutor Sgt Sylvan, told the magistrate that at about 1 am yesterday, police officers arrested Jadoo at his 27 Christian Street, San Fernando home.

He had dealt Candice Mohammed several blows to her body. The court heard that upon his arrest, Jadoo said, “Officer, I really beat she because she tell me she wanted to leave.” Jadoo accepted the facts as presented.

Representing Jadoo was attorney-at-law Ainsley Lucky who said that Jadoo left home to collect car parts and ended up in a “lime” with friends. After drinking “one beer”, Lucky said, Jadoo returned home and got into an argument with his commonlaw- wife. He lost his temper and struck her. In Jadoo’s defence, however, Lucky said Jadoo came from a broken home and his parents had divorced when he was eight months old.

He described his client as a “semi-reclusive” who prefers to do things for himself.

Lucky said that his client’s behaviour was “out of character” for him, even though “smatterings of arguments pepper” his relationship with Mohammed.

Lucky said that Jadoo was willing to apologise to Mohammed with whom he has a one-year-old girl. Mohammed, however, did not show up to court yesterday.

Dubay withheld sentence pending Mohammed’s appearance on January 20.