A man who beat his estranged wife and her lover with a machete pleaded guilty with explanation when he appeared before Resident Magistrate Simone Maddix in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrates’ Court on March 24, 2015.
The accused, Dwayne Williams, was charged with assault occasional bodily harm.
Allegations are that Williams beat his wife with a machete causing injuries all over her body. When he pleaded guilty with explanation, there was a hush of quiet expectation as the judge and the court personnel.
He related a sordid love triangle which involved his estranged wife.
“Your honour, we weren’t living together. So she ask me for money for her daughter to go school and when I went to her house she had man there. So I told her to give me back my money cause she let me come and a man was there. The man rush me your honour and I use the machete at the window and slap him. My wife, your honour, kept coming at me with the knife so I slap her and she kept coming your honour so I kept slapping her and then jump through the window,” explained Williams.
A stony-faced RM Maddix was unmoved.
“The way you explain, you would want the court to sorry for you but you got no injuries, so I have to go by what’s before me, so I’m going to hang something over you. Practise self control and get a lawyer and sort out your life and stay far from your wife and her boyfriend,” RM Maddix said, before sentencing Williams to six months in prison suspended for one year.
