A 58-year-old man yesterday pleaded guilty to beating his wife with a broom and pulling a knife on her when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.
On Wednesday the prosecution told the court that Doodnauth Girlall went home intoxicated and picked up a broom and hit his wife Deyokie Girlall. She then ran to the kitchen where the defendant pulled a knife and threatened to stab her.
The woman reported the matter to the police and her husband was later arrested.
“I was wrong and I apologised to her,” the man told the
