Stalker get six-month prison sentence

A stalker will have to spend the next six months behind bars after he was sentenced last Friday in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court for assaulting a woman he has been chasing for years.

Jermaine Samuels pleaded guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm.

The court was told that on the day in question, Samuels pushed the complainant into a fence causing injury.

Samuels told the court: "A follow mi follow her go up the road and she say she a go call police. Mi tell her mi want give her a nice youth. Mi nuh mean nothing by it."

The complainant said: "Your Honour, I was on my way to work and he wanted to follow me and carry my bag. I told him no. Him ride me down on a bicycle, and I told him I am going to call the police to find out how I could get a restraining order. Him jump off the bicycle and grab my hand with the phone and pushed me."

EXITED THE BATHROOM

The court heard that Samuels was friends with the complainant's brother and it wasn't the first time he had made advances to her.

She said: "That same evening when I reach home, I saw him at my gate and I called the police and reported him."

The court was told that on another occasion, the complainant was at home taking a shower and when she exited the bathroom, Samuels was in her house waiting for her.

She said: "I had to run him out the house. When I came out the bathroom all my clothes and everything was in my room. He sat there waiting for me to come out."

When cautioned by the arresting officer, Samuels reportedly said: "Officer, mi a beg a chance, a thru mi love her."

Parish Judge Vaughn Smith told Samuels that it was clear the complainant had no interest in him.

He was sentenced and a fingerprint order made.