In-laws charged with assaulting each other

A brawl at the Mahdia bus park landed two in-laws before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on assault charges.

But driver Brendon Johnson, 57, and neighbourhood policeman Utid McCloud, of 111 Miles Mahdia, both denied the charges against them that on March 14 at 111 Miles Backdam, they assaulted each other. When the case was called in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, Prosecutor Vernette Pindar said McCloud, who is Johnson’s sister-in-law, was on duty at the Mahdia bus park, where she observed him surrounded by