Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton remanded to prison a 24-year-old cook accused of assaulting a woman, when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer the charge.
Song Chang Chun denied that on August 7 at D’Urban and Camp streets Georgetown he unlawfully assaulted Hardai Murilall so as to cause her actual bodily harm. After the charge was read to the Chinese national, he told the court in English that he did not understand. The magistrate then asked him if he understood English and the defendant again said he didn’t understand.
His attorney, Nigel Hughes, told the court that while his client knows some amount of English, he is not fluent in the language. Hughes also told
