By FARRAH JOHNSON
Tribune Staff Reporter
fjohnson@tribunemedia.net
A 30-year-old man who last week punched and choked his friend’s mother was yesterday fined $600.
Jerome Joseph was arrested after he assaulted a woman in her home on December 7.
He pleaded guilty to one count each of threats of harm and assault during his arraignment before Assistant Chief Magistrate Subusola Swain yesterday.
The court was told on the day in question, the complainant was at her home when the accused came over. The prosecution said when the woman asked Joseph to leave, he refused to do so and then threatened to punch and kick her. The court heard the defendant then choked the woman and pushed her against a wall. As a result of her complaint, Joseph was arrested.
In an interview with police, he admitted to the offences.
During the hearing, Joseph told the magistrate he only committed the acts because the complainant was drunk and had spit in his eye at the time of the incident. He claimed after she spit on him, he pushed her against a wall, but she continued to follow him. Joseph said he then told the woman: “If you don’t stop, I will jump kick you because you already spit on me and sickness going around.”
After listening to his explanation, Magistrate Swain accepted the defendant’s guilty pleas and fined him $600 or 30 days at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services.
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