Man jailed one year for slapping ex

Leslie Charles making his way to the holding cell at the city courts after his sentencing.

Leslie Charles was yesterday sentenced to one year in jail after he admitted to slapping his former partner after she hit him.

Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond, however, imposed the one year prison sentence on Charles, after finding that his attack was unprovoked.

When the case was called at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, it was the police’s contention that Charles, on January, 8, at about 20:20hrs, at