Electrician charged with assault on wife

An electrician was yesterday charged with assaulting his common-law wife.

Ryan Shepherd, a father of three of 43 Palm Street, Werk-en-Rust, pleaded not guilty to cuffing Hollis Gillis to the left side of her face, causing it to be bruised and swollen.

At the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry heard that on September 10,