DELON Hutson, 33, of Lot 36 Hadfield Street, Lodge, Georgetown, has been charged with feloniously wounding a man who interfered with his reputed wife.

He pleaded not guilty to the March 18 offence and was granted $75,000 bail until April 24 when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday.

Defence Counsel Vic Puran said Hutson became upset because the virtual complainant, Dennis Parris “barefacedly” touched his spouse in a way she did not appreciate while at the route 41 mini-bus park in the city.

But Parris claimed he only greeted the woman, telling her: “Good Day” and she asked him if he knew to whom she belonged.

Parris said, the next day, three men accosted him and one of them chopped him on his hand with a cutlass.

Police Inspector Denise Griffith, prosecuting, confirmed that Parris troubled the woman as young men would usually do but he also touched her leg which caused her to report the incident to Hutson.