TWENTY-six-year-old Quincy Evans, a labourer of Station Street, Agricola, East Bank Demerara, was ordered to pay $50,000 compensation to the mother of his three-year-old son when he appeared Tuesday before City Magistrate Dylon Bess on a charge of assault causing actual bodily harm.The court heard that Evans unlawfully assaulted Karen Cook, so as to cause her actual bodily harm, on February 14 at 58 Middle Street, Agricola.

Pleading guilty, Evans explained to the Court that on the day in question, he had gone to see his son when he had a confrontation with his child-mother, at whom he “fire a cuff and ran away.”

The Court was told that Evans has a habit of constantly abusing and tormenting the mother of his child. On the day in question, at about 10:00hrs, Evans went to visit Cook to inquire about his child, and the two parties allegedly had a confrontation in which Evans dealt Cook several cuffs to her head.

Magistrate Bess first told Evans that he needed to find other ways of resolving his anger, before ordering him to pay Cook for the injuries she had received, failing which he faces three months’ imprisonment.