Miner accused of chopping ex-wife’s boyfriend

A miner was remanded to prison yesterday on a charge that he severely chopped his ex-wife’s current beau, who has been left hospitalised.

The charge against Eldon Richardson, of North Ruimveldt Squatting Area, states that on July 1st, at North Ruimveldt, he unlawfully and maliciously wounded Sherwin James with intent to maim, disfigure, disable or to cause him actual bodily harm.

Richardson, 37, was not required to plead to the indictable