Police station escapee denies brutalising fiancée, cousin

Lennox Cort, a detainee who was recaptured after escaping from the Providence Police Station on Monday and was sentenced to a year imprisonment for the crime on Tuesday, has denied brutalizing his fiancée and cousin.

Cort, 29, and a father of three, had been arrested and placed in police custody after being charged with unlawfully wounding, threatening language and assault causing actual bodily harm.

Before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court One on