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A police officer charged with assaulting his young stepson walked free yesterday after a magistrate ruled he had no case to answer. His wife, however, remains on trial for the same offence. Both defendants denied charges of assaulting the boy on an u...

A woman charged with assaulting her young son with a belt told police that the boy had been causing trouble in school. While she admitted using the boy’s school belt to discipline him, she said the punishment did not leave any visible injuries. “[My ...

Magistrate Juan Wolffe scolded a Southampton man in Magistrates’ Court after he pleaded guilty to assaulting another man at a taxi rank. Dane Stovell, of Pompano Lane, admitted to unlawfully assaulting Christopher Goulding outside Caisey’s Lounge on ...

A serving police officer and his wife appeared in court yesterday accused of striking her young son with a belt. The officer denies ever using a belt to strike the child. The boy’s mother however admitted using a belt to discipline the boy, but denie...

A Warwick handyman was remanded into custody yesterday after he admitted repeatedly striking a woman. Paul Edness, 52, pleaded guilty to assaulting Denise White, causing her actual bodily harm, but told the court that she had attacked him first, biti...

A 21-year-old man received a three-month suspended sentence for his involvement in a brawl outside Ice Queen. Yusef Williams, a Pembroke resident, was involved in a fight in the early morning of June 9 outside the restaurant. Police were called to th...

A domestic dispute over feeding household pets landed a woman in Magistrates’ Court for the second time this summer. Tara Burrows, 41, pleaded guilty to uttering threatening words to her niece, assaulting a police officer and violently resisting arre...

A 44-year-old man has been charged with unlawfully wounding, assaulting and causing actual bodily harm in Magistrates’ Court, among other charges. Leonard Swan of Seawall Drive, Sandys, pleaded not guilty to two accounts of unlawfully wounding and a...

A man was chopped in the back of the neck by a former friend after telling the friend to stay away from his girlfriend, a jury heard yesterday. Opening the case against the accused, Gregory Tucker, prosecutor Maria Sofianos said victim Kevin DeRosa s...

Two men have been arrested in connection with a robbery that left a 33-year-old man in “serious condition” with head injuries at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. The victim, who had been accompanied by his four- and ten-year-old sons, was set upon ...