Michael Jackson on bail over domestic violence incident

Michael Jackson yesterday appeared before Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond charged with assault causing actual bodily harm to his common-law wife Jenny Smith at the couple’s Lot 99 John Smith Street, Campbellville home on May 1.

Police said Jackson and Smith have lived together for five months.

It is alleged that he grabbed her hair and threw her over the verandah.

The police report further read that Jackson went home, seemingly under the influence of alcohol, at approximately 21:20 hrs on May 1 and demanded that his wife, who was sleeping on the verandah, tell him if she has any other men. Jackson was placed on $30,000 bail and the matter is scheduled to return to Court Ten on May 13.