Husband and wife advised to seek counselling after assault charges

Shawn Hopkinson and Coretta Hopkinson were yesterday advised to seek counselling when they appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court accused of assaulting each other.

The court heard that the Hopkinsons on May 26 at Meadow Brook Gardens unlawfully assaulted each other. They both pled guilty to the charges. According to the facts of the charge read by Prosecutor Police Corporal Simone Payne, the defendants are husband and wife. On the day in question at about midnight Mrs. Hopkinson went to her husband and asked for the vehicle keys which he refused to handover. She then grabbed his hand and he became annoyed.

He reported the matter to the East La Penitence Police Station and his wife was arrested and taken to the station where a confrontation was held between the two parties and she was charged with the