Wyclef Halley, accused of assaulting and using abusive language to his sister because she tried to put him off her premises, was yesterday remanded after he told a court he had nowhere else to go.
“I begging fa lil bail ma Worship. I don’t have nobody to help me or my children them out,” Halley was heard saying in a tearful plea to the court after Magistrate Faith McGusty refused bail.
Halley and his sister Sharon Howell had an ongoing dispute over his occupation of a portion of her Lot 81 Freeman Street, East La Penitence property. The magistrate concluded that the dispute would be best resolved if Halley moves.
“I will move. She just got to give me lil time to move out. I didn’t go there to lime. I just need the peace till I move,” the defendant, however, said, and as a result, the magistrate to remanded him to prison until July 22.
Halley, who was eager to speak, kept interrupting the magistrate as she read the charges when the case was called at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
“I didn’t knock her; was just a talking. And I didn’t curse her either,” he said.
Meanwhile, Howell, 39, was also charged in connection with the July 13 incident that led to the charges against Halley. She was alleged to have made use of threatening behaviour to Halley.
In an admission to the charge, Howell explained that she had just returned from the hospital to an argument with her brother, during which she said he promised “he gon put me where I belong in the burial ground.”
This, she said, prompted her to grab a knife that was on the table nearby.
For this charge, she was placed on self-bail. “I just want him to move,” Howell said.
The siblings are set to return on August 16 for trial.
