TAXI driver and ex-policeman Sherwin Braithwaite, 28, of Lot 1901 Festival City, North Ruimveldt, Georgetown, has been charged with wounding his neighbour in a suspected triangular affair.

The defendant appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday and pleaded not guilty to having unlawfully wounded Wendell Austin, so as to cause him actual bodily harm, on October 12.

Braithwaite told the Court the virtual complainant is his neighbour whom he has warned, on several occasions, not to visit his home as he has a suspicion about the man and his reputed wife.

The defendant said he had a confrontation with Austin because he arrived home to find him in his house but denied inflicting any wound.

Austin, who was present in the courtroom, said he was invited by the defendant’s reputed wife to have lunch and was eating when the defendant came in with an angry look on his face and chopped him with a cutlass about his body.
Braithwaite was put on $25,000 bail until November 18.