A Courtland, Corentyne, man was yesterday arrested after he assaulted his girlfriend and her eight-year-old daughter.
The man, Junior Benn, 32, a linesman at the Guyana Power and Light Company, accused the woman, who is 32, of having an affair. The reason? She had her phone on vibrate.
However, after the woman denied the allegations, Benn allegedly began to hit her to her face repeatedly. He then threw her to the ground and continued assaulting her, after which he opened a bottle containing a suspected poisonous substance and threw it in her mouth and on her face.