GUYSUCO employee Sham Dyal, facing charges of assault and threatening language allegedly committed on his wife, Indranie Dyal, pleaded with Albion Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh to have the police tell his wife’s lover to let her go.

The virtual complainant told the court that she and her husband were arguing at home on December 19, 2013, when her husband threw her to the ground, took a file and threatened to inflict injuries to her abdomen.

They subsequently went to Rose Hall Town, where he uplifted his wages before returning home and invited a neighbour to consume alcohol with him.

The visitor left the home after the defendant threatened to chop off his wife’s neck with a cutlass and then hang himself.

The matter was thereafter reported, and charges were instituted.
In his sworn evidence, the defendant said that after he had returned home from work, he observed bicycle tyre marks under his house, and he asked his wife who had visited in his absence, but she failed to give him a reasonable answer.

Minutes later, the landline telephone rang, and after his wife answered, she muttered incoherently. Questioned to whom she was speaking on the telephone, the woman responded that it was not his business.

“My Worship, me wife go away for six weeks, and I still take her back. I am a good man, but is she get me like this. I am not a rum man; she usually (collects) my money. Me want you to tell the police to tell the man that I want me wife! Me want she back, we got two children! Is this same behaviour that mek she first husband go with their two children to America. Me does wash wares and clean de house. I did not assault her, we had a mouth talk when the man call.”
Questioned by the magistrate, the complainant said she had gone to the other man “for him to rescue me”.

The defendant was thereafter granted $10,000 bail, and was ordered to stay 100 feet away from the complainant until the determination of the case.

(By Jeune Bailey Vankeric)