WESLEY Tull, a security guard of Lot 36 Seaforth Street, Campbellville, Georgetown on Thursday was sentenced to eight months imprisonment by Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond for using threatening language to his reputed wife.Tull changed his plea to guilty, accepting that on December 23 at Seaforth Street, he committed the offence against Subrina Naidoo.
Police Corporal Jomo Nichols, prosecuting, said the couple had a misunderstanding over the virtual complainant’s son stealing his money and as a result he threatened to chop Naidoo and everyone in the house. She became fearful for her life and reported the matter to the police.
Tull is at present serving an eighteen-month sentence for assault causing actual bodily harm, after being sentenced by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry. Particulars of that offence said that on the same day he assaulted the woman.
The threatening language offence was transferred to Magistrate Chandan-Edmond’s court on Monday.