Man gets 21 days jail after battering wife

A man will be spending the next three weeks in jail after he admitted to assaulting his wife following a heated argument over how she was scolding their son.

Winel Bristol was jailed after he pleaded guilty to the charges when he appeared before city magistrate Faith McGusty on Thursday.

The court heard that he threatened and assaulted his common-law wife, Joanna Atkins, on