KWAME Bruce (no address given) was yesterday sentenced to four months’ imprisonment by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine Beharry for unlawfully and maliciously wounding Pauline Simon at Stabroek Bazaar in Georgetown on Tuesday, January 7, 2014, and, on the same day, using threatening language to her husband, Safraz Ghani.Police prosecutor Corporal Bharat Mangru detailed that the two virtual complainants (VC), husband and wife, were shopping in the Stabroek Bazaar area at about 13:10 hrs on the day in question when the defendant, in crutches, approached Ghani and told him that he ‘did stuff’ to him when he was in jail.

Bruce then dropped the crutches, pulled out an ice pick from his waist, and advanced on the couple. After Simon saw what was happening, she held on to the weapon and tried to disarm the defendant, but he hit her to the mouth with his hand, causing her to receive a swelling and laceration to her top lip, according to the prosecutor.

In his defence, Bruce said he was released from prison on December 6 and begged his living around the Bazaar area. He said he saw Ghani and asked him for help, telling Ghani: “I used to ‘go down’ on you in prison”; but then he saw Ghani reaching for his waist, so he decided to pull out his ice pick in defence.

Bruce said Ghani hit him to his head with his crutches, and he had to hit Ghani’s wife off because he does not have any problems with her.

Bruce also denied using threatening language to Ghani on the day in question.