THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD Trevor Sinclair confessed to slapping his mother after she demanded that he be home by 20:00hrs.

The defendant told Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh at the Albion Court on Tuesday, “I am a 32-year old man and she always want me to get home at 8pm.”

But the magistrate said to Sinclair, “You are 32-years-old and still at your mother’s house? If you need to remain there you must obey, otherwise you need to get your own home.”

Police Sergeant Phillip Sherriff, prosecuting, said that on February 4, Sinclair unlawfully assaulted his 62-year-old mother, Carmen Rhobe.
The virtual complainant was resting in her bedroom when the defendant started using a series of expletives, while forcefully pulling the curtains off the wall.
When she objected to his behaviour, he dealt her several cuffs to her face and slapped her to the head.

The matter was subsequently reported at Albion Police Station.

Meanwhile, the mother pleaded with the court to give him a chance and the magistrate imposed a six-month bond requiring him to keep the peace.