Missing porridge sparks assault

A painter who returned home from work to eat his lunch but found neither the food nor his common-law wife at home, is facing assault charges in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court.

It is alleged that the accused, who will not be identified by this publication, approached the complainant while she was talking to another man along South Camp Road in Kingston and hit her in the face repeatedly, causing a wound which bled. However, he denies hitting the complainant.

"I am a painter and I had a work in the morning. I left the house and gave her $5000. She make porridge and I left the work and come home to eat the porridge. I reach home, look in the microwave and I don't see the porridge and she not in the house. I look outside and see her coming out of a vehicle and she start flare up pon me say 'A send dem send yuh fi watch me?'" the accused man explained. The complainant said that she sustained injuries during the altercation and had to receive medical attention.

"Me use a cream fi get out of scar. It was on my nose," the complainant indicated to Senior Parish Judge Sanchia Burrell.

The matter was referred to mediation and the matter was set for mention on November 11.