Georgetown: After a tumultuous argument with flairs flying high, Jerome Perriera of Riverview, Ruimveldt was today charged with using threatening language against Shelly Miller, his common law wife.
The defendant appeared before Magistrate, Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer to two charges.
The charges read that on May 11, the defendant used threatening language, to this charge, he pleaded not guilty.
“My wife has been threatening to chop off my penis and she said she will put feces in my food and give me to eat. Since she tell me that, I stop eating home and she been violent and abusive. On the day in question, when she started quarrelling because I didn’t eat home, I just told her some things but I didn’t threaten her,” the man explained to the court.
The woman revealed that she never made such utterances to her husband. She explained “Your worship I feel like a prisoner when I am with this man. He does not allow me to have friends. When I walk the road I have to put my head straight. If I going to the market, he always saying is a man I going and meet. Since I am with him he has been threatening to murder me.”
It was further alleged that on the said date, the defendant behaved disorderly at the Ruimveldt Police Station. To this charge the defendant pleaded guilty with an explanation. He told the court that on the said date, his wife made the report against him and the police came to his home to escort him to the station. He asked the police what he is being charged for and he alleged that the officers lashed him in the face with a book and began to beat him up. It was then he behaved disorderly.
The defendant was subsequently released on his own recognizance for the charge of disorderly behaviour but was made to post a bond of $60,000 for the threatening language matter and will make his next appearance before the court on May 30.
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