A minibus driver was yesterday placed on a bond to keep the peace after he and his girlfriend decided against proceeding with assault charges against each other.
A city court heard that Rawle Miller and his girlfriend Janelle Walter assaulted each other after she refused to disembark his bus after reaching her destination.
Miller told Magistrate Alex Moore, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court 10, Walter wanted to accompany him as he drove the bus to find out if he was talking to anyone else. Both Miller and Walter pleaded not guilty to the charge that they assaulted each other on March 16, on D’Urban Street.
Miller told the court that Walter had approached him at the bus park and she asked him for bus fare. However, since the conductor had all the money and was not around at the time, he asked her to wait. The young man said that Walter then boarded the bus and told him to put her off on Leopold Street. However, after she reached her destination, she refused to disembark from the vehicle, which prompted him to hold her hands and ask her to leave. Instead of complying, she grabbed his shirt, which gained the attention of some police officers who were in close proximity. The officers intervened and the couple was charged. Walter agreed with Miller’s account and then told the Magistrate that she did not want any problem. The couple then decided that neither would pursue the charge against the other.
When the magistrate asked Walter what she thought about her partner, she said he is a nice person. “He is a nice person but he does follow he friends them and he don’t listen to me when I talk to he,” she said.
Miller was then placed on a bond to keep the peace for six months. Breach of that bond would result in him being imprisoned for two weeks.
After the man was told of the bond, he informed the magistrate that he might likely be imprisoned given his girlfriend’s character. “Is not a easy person I in a relationship with, you know,” he stated.
Magistrate Moore then reminded Miller that if he is provoked by his girlfriend to breach the bond, he is entitled to make a report, which will result in legal action being taken against her. “I will jus like if you tell her that again your worship,” Miller said afterward.
