A 55-year-old man was fined $8,000 with the alternative of four months imprisonment for unlawful assault by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Wednesday.
Desmond Denny of 36 D’Urban Street, Werk-en-Rust pleaded guilty with explanation to unlawfully assaulting Cathleen Dey on February 15 at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
In his explanation to the court, Denny said he and the virtual complainant (VC) were in a relationship and while he lived with her she would burn him with hot water for no reason. When asked by the magistrate why he was burned Denny replied, “Like she does go out she head.”
Meanwhile on the day in question, Denny said he never assaulted the VC. He said he merely pulled her jacket and the button came off.
However Dey told the court that on the day in question, she was followed to the hospital by the defendant and when she was in the hospital’s compound, the defendant “scramble me and give me one cuff and rip off my top…”
The very animated woman even produced the top that the man had ripped off. She then told the court that when they had a fight the Friday before the defendant stole her underwear off the line, “He is a man when he give you something he does tek back,” the VC told the court.
Police Prosecutor Inspector Stephen Telford reading the facts of the matter told the court that on the day in question the VC went to the hospital to seek medical attention when the defendant saw her and asked her to give him back the clothes and shoes she was wearing that he had given to her.
Telford, said that the VC ignored him and the defendant became upset and cuffed the VC to her stomach. The matter was reported to the police at the hospital’s outpost and he was arrested.
When the magistrate asked the man what he did with the underwear, he told her that he did not steal it. After he was put of out the house on Friday night he took the underwear and “pitch it away in vexation,” he said.
