MAGISTRATE Adela Nagamootoo has ordered a probation report on Gopaul True, who is charged with threatening his wife, Maureen.

Until the compilation is presented, at New Amsterdam Court, in Berbice, on October 19, the defendant was remanded to prison.

True pleaded guilty to the charge last Friday and said the prosecution has its genesis in his wife’s infidelity with a man who jumps over their back fence.

The man accused his wife of not doing anything for him and not treating him like her husband.

“She don’t give me anything to eat. All she does is sit in a hammock. That’s how I would see her whenever I return from work,” True lamented.

However Police Lance Corporal Roberto Figueira, prosecuting, said the taxi driver repeatedly assaults the virtual complainant who complained that her husband of 17 years constantly assaults her in the presence of their three children.

She said, last October 6, he returned home and, after using a series of profanities, armed himself with a cutlass and threatened to kill her.

The woman said she became afraid and reported the incident to the Police.

She asked the Court to have her husband removed from the matrimonial home and, when he agreed to move, the magistrate advised that it happens in the presence of a policeman.

Twenty-year-old Orlando Samuels was also refused bail on a similar charge in the same Court yesterday.

An application for the grant, by Defence Counsel Chandra Das Persaud, was rejected following opposition from the Prosecutor.

Figueira said the defendant, usually goes to a secondary school and engage in fights with the students and, on October 5, last, he went to Vryman’s Erven where he dealt Kassim Harry several slaps and threatened to kill him.
Samuels, of Number 12, Corentyne, in Berbice, too, is expected back in Court on October 19, for report.