Jealous lover faces additional charge

Awoman who got into a fight with her “on and off again” boyfriend when she peeped through his window and saw another woman in his bed, is to return to court for an additional charge to be laid against her.

Sherine Wedderburn told the St Andrew Parish Court last week that she went to Richard Gray’s house to ask him a question when an altercation developed between them.

Wedderburn is charged with assault occasioning bodily harm while Gray is charged with unlawful wounding.

Gray told the court that he was inside his house sleeping with his girlfriend when he saw his window “fly open”.

“She tore up my window,” Gray stated.

Obviously upset about her discovery, Wedderburn told the court that Gray was at her house the Monday and the incident took place the Saturday.

She also explained that they had an “on and off relationship” for two and a half years.

Insisting that she had only gone to his house to ask a question, she admitted that she bit his finger during the altercation.

“… I was trying to restrain him because he was hitting me with a piece of board,” she said prior to refusing mediation.

At the same time, Gray told the court that Wedderburn threw a large stone through his car’s windshield.

However, he was advised that the woman was not charged for malicious destruction of property.

A March 19 date was subsequently set for the police to collect the medical report from the relevant institution and lay the additional charge against Wedderburn.

Hungry grandmother wants counselling

A grandmother who admitted to dousing her granddaughter with water, when she refused to share her food with her, and damaging her door, wants counselling.

Maureen Livermore, after expressing that she was upset because her granddaughter, whom she raised and love, would deny her food, told the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court that the complainant, who was absent, did not want to press charges.

However, acting Senior Parish Judge Chester Crooks explained to Livermore on Friday that her granddaughter had already charged her.

The grandmother, who was charged with malicious destruction of property and common assault, said she did not want to hit her granddaughter so she soaked her with water to shut her up.

“She was eating some food and I asked her for some and she said it was not enough. The day before was my birthday and me feed them all the time. She get up and a cuss and slam the door. Me hold the door — a little flimsy door — and the handle come off. She a cuss bout how she independent. Me take up the bath pan a water weh me other grandson throw fabric softener in and throw it pon her through the window,” she told the court.

Crooks asked the woman if she would be able to pay the fine today.

“Weh me fi get it from? If nothing a she goodly have to come bail me,” she blurted out.

She was subsequently admonished and discharged.

Prior to entering the courtroom, the grandmother asked Crooks to provide counselling for her family.

man Held for stealing taxi

A man who was taken into custody when he crashed a stolen taxi into the perimeter fence of a church on Lyndhurst Road, St Andrew, last year is now before the court.

Kemar Granville is charged with receiving stolen goods.

Reports are that on December 9, 2018 Granville, purporting to be a passenger, boarded the white Probox motor car in downtown Kingston at approximately 5:00 am.

Granville allegedly stabbed the driver, relieved him of the motor car, and escaped.

But the car had the services of a Kingalarm tracker and an alert was subsequently sent, triggering Kingalarm’s armed response units.

Working with updated locations of the motor car on their in-vehicle tablets, the security guards began tracking the car from Orange Street as it headed towards Cross Roads.

The police were also summoned and the vehicle reportedly stopped on Retirement Road when someone was seen exiting the car. On realising that the vehicle was being followed, the driver sped off.

However, he did not get far. The vehicle crashed into the perimeter fence at Lyndhurst Methodist Church at the corner of Rousseau Road and Lyndhurst Road.

The owner of the vehicle was subsequently notified.

On Friday when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court Grandville’s father, who travelled from St Elizabeth, told the court that his son is a “mental health patient”.

Granville was subsequently remanded for psychiatric evaluation.

He is expected to be brought back before the court on February 15.