FITY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Neerayah (only name given) was made to apologise to his wife of 41 years, in open Court yesterday, after he admitted hitting and stomping her on the chest after she opted to leave the matrimonial bedroom because of his drunkenness. The defendant, a sawmill watchman, in tears, pleaded guilty to an assault charge, declaring:”I love my wife. She cooks for me every day. I will not do it again. I am sorry.”
”You better not hit her again or you will starve and go over there,” Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo warned him, pointing in the direction of the New Amsterdam Prison.
The magistrate, subsequently, put Neerayhah on a one year bond and cautioned the probationer that, if be breaches it, he will be sentenced to six months imprisonment.
Police Sergeant Phillip Sherriff, prosecuting, said on June 9, the defendant returned home under the influence of alcohol, as result of which his wife decided to sleep in another room.
But her decision angered her husband, who broke down the door, scrambled the woman dragged her to the floor, prior to stomping her on the chest.
The mother of four left the home and went to Central Police Station in New Amsterdam where she made a report, the Prosecutor related.