LESLIE Charles (no address given) and his child-mother Tamda Dailey appeared yesterday before Georgetown Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond charged with assaulting each other on January 8 at Waterloo Street, Georgetown.The charge against Charles detailed that he assaulted Dailey so as to cause her actual bodily harm, whilst the charge against Dailey detailed that she had hit Charles on the mouth.

They each pleaded not guilty to their respective charge.

Police Corporal Jomo Nichols, prosecuting, said that at around 20:30 hrs on the day in question, Charles and Dailey had a misunderstanding in Waterloo Street, and Dailey is alleged to have hit Charles on his lip and he cuffed her on the face.

Based on the evidence given by the defendants and the statements made by the prosecutor, Magistrate Chandan-Edmond informed Dailey that she believed her story, and that the medical report strongly supported it. Therefore she found Dailey not guilty.

However, she told Charles that he accepted hitting the woman and that he was not provoked to hit her. The magistrate said she found a pattern in Charles’s behaviour, since Dailey had testified that she had been hit several times before.

According to Charles, he has five children to take care of, one of which is not his. He apologised for what had happened, and said he and Dailey have been separated for three months now.

Nevertheless, he was found guilty as charged, and sentenced to one year’s imprisonment.
Written By Geeta Rampersaud