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BASDEO Sankar, 37, will spend the next seven months behind bars, after he was convicted for assaulting his parents.
According to the police, Basdeo Sankar recently, at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, unlawfully assaulted his mother, Jesolu Narine so as to cause her actual bodily harm. The overbearing extent of the defendant’s behaviour was related by the virtual complainant when the matter was called, as the woman begged presiding Magistrate Alex Moore to send her son away to prison since she was fed up with his daily verbal and physical assaults.
She recalled that on the day in question, her son came to her home under the influence of alcohol and started to abuse her husband (his stepfather).
The woman claimed that when she tried to intervene, her son went to the kitchen and picked up a knife, which was promptly wrestled away from him, but he then picked up a piece of wood and tried to hit her husband with it but struck her instead.
The visibly frustrated mom added that several other physical encounters of a similar nature followed immediately afterwards, forcing her to call in the police.
In Sankar’s defense, he told the court that as a result of an accident he had suffered years ago, he became mentally unstable, and this has caused him to become a heavy drinker and to regularly do odd things.
In a bid to avoid jail time, he subsequently suggested to Magistrate Moore that a suitable punishment would be to simply ban him from going to his mother’s house.
However, Magistrate Moore pointed out that it was not the first time Sankar had appeared before him on a similar charge, and as such he sentenced the man to seven months imprisonment.
According to the police, Basdeo Sankar recently, at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, unlawfully assaulted his mother, Jesolu Narine so as to cause her actual bodily harm. The overbearing extent of the defendant’s behaviour was related by the virtual complainant when the matter was called, as the woman begged presiding Magistrate Alex Moore to send her son away to prison since she was fed up with his daily verbal and physical assaults.
She recalled that on the day in question, her son came to her home under the influence of alcohol and started to abuse her husband (his stepfather).
The woman claimed that when she tried to intervene, her son went to the kitchen and picked up a knife, which was promptly wrestled away from him, but he then picked up a piece of wood and tried to hit her husband with it but struck her instead.
The visibly frustrated mom added that several other physical encounters of a similar nature followed immediately afterwards, forcing her to call in the police.
In Sankar’s defense, he told the court that as a result of an accident he had suffered years ago, he became mentally unstable, and this has caused him to become a heavy drinker and to regularly do odd things.
In a bid to avoid jail time, he subsequently suggested to Magistrate Moore that a suitable punishment would be to simply ban him from going to his mother’s house.
However, Magistrate Moore pointed out that it was not the first time Sankar had appeared before him on a similar charge, and as such he sentenced the man to seven months imprisonment.
