Magistrate Faith McGusty on Tuesday handed down a two-month prison sentence to Kerwin Baksh, after he admitted to threatening his former partner and her daughter.
Baksh, 29, was sentenced to two months imprisonment for using threatening language to address former partner Rhonda Phillips and two months imprisonment for the use of threatening behaviour towards her daughter, Miranda Taylor. He will, however, only spend two months in jail since the sentences will run concurrently.
At the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, the magistrate heard that Baksh had sometime in the past stabbed a relative of Phillips and Taylor. He was charged for that offence, however, Phillips had begged for the charge to be dropped.
However, on Tuesday Baksh pleaded guilty to both charges. “I don’t want to waste the court’s time. They told me thing and I tell them back thing,” he told Magistrate McGusty.
The threatening language charge against him stated that on November 15, at King Edward Street, Albouystown, Baksh used threatening language on Phillips. Baksh threatened to “chop off me neck and go into the bush,” Phillips said.
Baksh was also charged with making use of threatening behaviour towards Phillips’ daughter, Miranda Taylor at the same address. He threatened to kill both Taylor and her partner, the court heard.
But Baksh told the court that he was responding to a threat issued to him by Taylor. “She tell me she gon bring she child father fuh kill me,” Baksh explained, “so I tell she before she child father come I gon kill she.” But Taylor declared that Baksh was the one making death threats to her.
“See with me so I could move on with my life and she could move on with she life,” Baksh subsequently told the court in reference to Phillips, while making a bid for leniency.
Baksh said that Phillips was always “swarring” him to continue the hostile relationship, when Magistrate McGusty asked why he doesn’t leave if the relationship was troubled.
Additionally, He begged for a restraining order, telling the magistrate that he did not want to have to answer a murder charge.
