ORSON Cumberbatch (no address given) was sentenced to six weeks imprisonment yesterday, for beating his son with a piece of metal pipe and broadsiding his pregnant daughter-in-law with a cutlass. He was also fined $15,000 with the alternative of another two weeks in prison for calling a woman Inspector, at the East La Penitence Police Station, a jackass.
The defendant pleaded guilty to all the charges before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.
Particulars of the offences said he unlawfully assaulted Anthony Kissoon and Marlene Burnette to cause them actual bodily harm on April 28 and behaved in a disorderly manner, on April 29,  at the East la Penitence Police Station.
Police Corporal Simone Payne, prosecuting, said, on April 28, Cumberbatch told his son that Burnette does not do any chores in the home and became annoyed because Kissoon ignored him.
The prosecutor said Cumberbatch picked up the piece of metal and lashed his son about the body causing him injuries and, when the injured man’s reputed wife intervened, her father-in-law broadsided her with the cutlass.
Following a report, Cumberbatch was arrested but, at the station, when the inspector cautioned him about his behaviour, he called her a jackass, the prosecutor said.
The defendant told the court he was sorry for his conduct and sought the forgiveness of his son and daughter-in-law, although he claimed that his son cuffed him first and he retaliated.
Cumberbatch said his girlfriend was present and knows exactly what happened and he was given the opportunity to call her.
However, unfortunately for the woman, Yolanda Henry, when she entered the courtroom, the magistrate remembered that an arrest warrant had been issued for her in connection with an illegal drug charge and instructed the court orderly to arrest and take her to the lock-ups.
Magistrate Octive-Hamilton recalled that, in her absence, Henry was sentenced to six weeks imprisonment for possession of a narcotic.