A 33-year-old man, who allegedly chopped another on the arm several times because he reportedly touched his reputed wife inappropriately, was granted bail on Thursday when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Delon Hutson of Lot 36 Hadfield Street, Lodge pleaded not guilty to the charge of felonious wounding. It is alleged that on March 18, Hutson unlawfully and maliciously wounded Denis Paris.
In a plea of mitigation, Hutson’s lawyer Vic Puran asked, “what must a man do when another person barefacedly feel up his wife?”
He said that the next day when his client accosted Paris about the incident, he got angry and a fight ensued.
“My client isn’t denying the allegation,” Puran said, “but he [Paris] is lucky that he only suffered a broken hand.”
Paris, whose left hand was both cast and bandaged, stated that on the day in question he got into a minibus in the front seat with the driver and saw Hutson’s reputed wife in the passenger’s seat at the back of the bus. “I just turn back and tell she good day,” Paris said, “and she tell me ‘you know who I belong to? Well yuh gon find out’.”
He said that the next day he was at the Kitty Bus Park when Hutson and two others approached him and accosted him about the incident suggesting that he had “felt up” Huston’s reputed wife’s legs. He said they scrambled him but he broke free and ran into America Street, but the men caught up with him back at the bus park and grabbed him. He said Hutson then took out a cutlass and dealt him several chops to his left hand, then smacked him in his back with it before running away.
Police Prosecutor Denise Griffith told the court that on the day in question Paris was sitting next to Hutson’s wife in the passenger’s seat at the back of the bus and he “touched her legs” and then told her that he didn’t care who she belonged to. She said it was after he had assaulted the woman that Paris went into the front seat next to the driver.
The prosecutor said Hutson’s reputed wife told him what had happened and that was why Hutson had accosted Paris.
Hutson’s reputed wife, who was also present in court, corroborated what Griffith said.
The magistrate subsequently placed Hutson on bail in the sum of $75, 000 and ordered that he return to court on April 24.
