TWENTY-FIVE-year-old Marissa Rodney of Lot 80 Vreed-en-Hoop Squatting Area, West Coast Demerara, a vendor at the Georgetown Technical Institute (GTI), was yesterday placed on $30,000 bail after she admitted fracturing the elbow of Isaac Subryan on October 18 at Woolford Avenue, Georgetown, with a block of wood.

When the charge was read to her by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine- Beharry, the young woman pleaded guilty, and Corporal Bharat Mangru, prosecuting, said Rodney was at the school’s compound when she hit the man with a two-by-four piece of wood.
He said that Rodney and Subryan are known to each other, and that at 10:00 hrs on the day in question, they had a verbal disagreement. “As a result, the virtual complainant gave[Rodney] a slap to her face, and she picked up a two-by-four wood and lashed his hand,” Corporal Mangru said.
He told the court that the victim subsequently reported the incident to the police, and Rodney was arrested and charged with the offence.
Subryan was not present for the trial, but Rodney contended that he had been instigator of the entire incident. “He is always drunk when he comes around, always drunk-drunk,” Rodney said as she looked at the magistrate.
Her version of events was that, on the day of the incident, Subryan was intoxicated and she decided to give him something to drink. “And he start to cuss me out and point in me face,” she said offensively.
Thereafter, she said, they engaged in an argument until he chucked her, upon which she returned the same blow, and he slapped her.
Rodney said she then picked up a piece of wood and lashed Subryan with it. However, she said, it was not a two-by-four wood.
She complained that the man was a constant irritation to her while she is working. She said she constantly needs to remind him that he should not be selling customers and holding his private parts.
The magistrate then asked if Rodney was certain that Subryan had initiated the fight, and when Rodney answered in the affirmative, the magistrate entered a not-guilty plea on Rodney’s behalf. The magistrate was then given a copy of the medical report, which revealed that Subryan had suffered a fractured elbow as a result of the blow he had sustained.
The prosecutor did not object to Rodney being granted bail, so the magistrate put her on $30,000 bail and ordered that Subryan be summoned for the next court date, January 31.