ADRIAN CHESTER appeared yesterday before City Magistrate Alex Moore to answer a charge of verbally abusing Mavis Watson on March 31, whereby a breach of the peace was occasioned.

The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge, particulars of which dictated that as a son of Mavis Watson, the defendant, on the day in question, went home under the influence of alcohol and started using expletives to his mother.

In his defence, Chester told the court that he was drinking at his friend’s home on the whole day in question, and had come home drunk and had passed out. He accordingly claimed to have no recollection of the incident.

The magistrate ordered Chester to attend counselling, failing which he would be made to serve four months’ imprisonment.

Chester will return to court on April 7.

(Clestine Juan)