Man charged with disfiguring ex-girlfriend

Jermaine King

-held after months on the run

After being on the run for months, a man accused of disfiguring his former partner by dousing her with a corrosive substance was yesterday remanded to prison.

Jermaine King, 38, of 35 East Ruimveldt had evaded police capture since November after he allegedly doused his then-girlfriend, Anchinalu Canning, in front of her D’urban Street home.

Yesterday, before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, King, a miner and father of three, was charged with grievously wounding the woman with intent to commit murder. According to Prosecutor Gordon Mansfield, on November 16th, 2013, Canning had been coming out of her