Complainant recants testimony in domestic violence case

A woman yesterday recanted her testimony that her reputed husband had abused her and Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond adjourned the hearing to today.

On April 17, Anita Hodge had appeared in Court Ten and had given detailed evidence against her reputed husband Lingsford Benjamin, who was charged with assaulting her.

Yesterday she took the stand and told the court that her husband did nothing. “On the last occasion I did say he choked me and lifted me up but now