Three month-sentence for man who beat wife with cable

Shawn Gonsalves

A man has been sentenced to three months in prison after pleading guilty to assaulting his wife by whipping her with a cable.

Shawn Gonsalves, 32, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday on a charge of assaulting his wife so as to cause her actual bodily harm.

The charge stated that Gonsalves committed the offence on September 4th, 2019, at David Street, Kitty. He pleaded guilty to the charge after it was read to him by Senior Magistrate Leron Daly.