Woman kicks constable in crotch

A Central Kingston resident defended her decision to kick a police constable in the crotch, arguing that he was the smallest among five officers she encountered.

Donnette Shand, charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, asserted that she was outnumbered by the officers, who physically attacked her and hurled insults.

"Me beat him up, Your Honour, that's why him nuh come court today," the defendant said as the judge took note of the absence of the injured cop.

"You think he's embarrassed?" Senior Parish Judge Sanchia Burrell probed, eliciting laughter in the courtroom at the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court.

"Yea, him embarrassed. A me did a win the fight. Him was the mawga one out a all a the police dem. Five a dem pon me one, Your Honour," Shand added.

Prosecutors shared that the police were conducting operations within a community, with the aim to apprehend wanted men. Shand, upon seeing the police, started behaving in a loud and boisterous manner, uttering, "A him unnu a look fah? Him look like wanted man to unnu?"

The court heard further that following Shand's insults, the police left that section of the community and went to another area, where Shand followed them. A tussle ensued between the defendant and the police. During the tussle, Shand kicked the police officer on his penis, the prosecutor outlined.

"If unnu did lowe me and him, me woulda beat him up more. Me nah ask Christ," Shand allegedly said when arrested and cautioned.

When quizzed by the judge if she made such comment, Shand answered in the affirmitive.

"Yes, Your Honour, because dem start beat me with the baton and blood up my ankle. Dem nah go come court, Your Honour, because me tell dem seh me a go the human rights place. Dem beat me up bad," she told the judge.

"A him first start it, me did affi defend myself cause him a tell me how my parts big and all sort of things," Shand said further.

Although the defendant pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm, Burrell noted on the court's records that the plea would not be accepted as Shand raised self-defence.

"I believe you should go in front of a judge and tell them what exactly happened," the presiding judge said.

The matter was adjourned until November 27 for the complainant to attend and for the medical certificate to be added to the file.