A labourer from Port Kaituma, accused of biting his wife on the forehead during a quarrel, was released on self-bail and the couple was ordered by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan to seek counselling when the man appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Friday.
Ron Bovell, 18, a labourer living in Port Kaituma, was charged with assaulting his common-law wife. He pleaded not guilty to the charge which stated that on August 27th at Third Basin, Port Kaituma, he assaulted his wife so as to cause her actual bodily harm.
According to Police Prosecutor Gordon Mansfield, the young couple had a misunderstanding and Bovell bit his wife on the forehead resulting in her sustaining abrasions to the left side of her forehead.
