A man charged with breaking the windows of his partner’s vehicle was ordered to perform community service after his partner asked the court to be lenient with him.
Terrence Thomas was brought to the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts last Friday, when he was read a charge by Senior Magistrate Leron Daly. The charge stated that on October 8th, at Vlissengen Road, Georgetown, Thomas unlawfully and maliciously damaged six windows, valued $181,000, which were the property of Quincy McEwan.
Thomas pleaded guilty to the charge but before the Magistrate could penalise him for the crime, McEwan asked her if Thomas could instead, compensate him for the damage. He explained to the court that he and Thomas are in a relationship and that he did not know what enraged his partner on the day in question but that he did not want him to go to jail. “So, I’m asking the court to be lenient with him and let him do community service,” he added.
Prosecutor Christopher Morris told the court that on the day in question Thomas and McEwan got into a heated argument and Thomas took McEwan’s bag, containing $70,000, from him and then picked up a brick, which he used to break the windows of McEwan’s vehicle.
The magistrate considered McEwan’s request and ordered Thomas to perform six months of community service and told him he had until the last Friday in December to compensate McEwan for the damage caused. She also bonded him to ensure good behaviour over the next six months.
Thomas had been before the court earlier this year and had pleaded guilty to using threatening language toward a man who had proposed that he start a relationship with him. Thomas’ girlfriend at the time had also been charged with damaging the man’s property. She was sentenced to eight months in prison, while Thomas was fined.
