Construction worker battered woman after refusal to have sex – court told

A construction worker was yesterday charged for allegedly assaulting a woman who refused him sex.

The court was told that on September 30, at South Amelia’s Ward, Linden, Collis Duke, 30, unlawfully and maliciously wounded Wynette Tappin and caused her actual bodily harm.

Tappin told the court that she was beaten by Duke because she refused to have sexual intercourse with