CHRISTINA Mendonca has been charged with threatening behaviour towards her mother’s tenant.

The defendant appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson and the 43-year-old, of Lot 105 Regent Street, Bourda, Georgetown, pleaded not guilty.

It is alleged that, on July 16, she made use of threats to Rita Persaud.

Mendonca, who claimed she is a volunteer at St. Ann’s Orphanage, was granted $10,000 bail until July 21.

Police Inspector Denise Griffith, prosecuting, said Mendonca used a knife to threaten Persaud, who was living in a house belonging to her mother but the tenancy expired.

The virtual complainant said she is afraid of Mendonca, as her life has been a hell ever since the defendant returned from New York.