A Rastafarian man, who violently attacked and beat his common-law wife after she entertained a request from their daughter for a meal of stew peas and rice with pig's tail, was sentenced to 10 days behind bars when he appeared in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's court yesterday.

Anthony Peevus, a Trinidadian national who has been living in the island at Eleven Miles, St Catherine for the past seven years, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm and unlawful wounding against his common-law wife and was sentenced by RM Judith Pusey to 10 days in prison on each count - to run concurrently.

According to court documents, on March 8 at approximately 11:00am, Peevus was at home with his common-law wife and their three children, who were about to go to catch shrimp with their mother. One of the children then said to her mother that she wanted a meal of stew peas, rice and pig's tail, and the mother responded by saying that the price of pig's tail was too expensive.

On hearing that part of the conversation, Peevus, who was in an adjoining room at the time, approached his common-law wife and began to argue with her about the child's request. The argument quickly developed into a fight, during which Peevus punched his common-law wife in her mouth, dislocating two of her teeth, then went on to punch and kick her several times all over her body.

As he stood in the dock yesterday, a penitent Peevus told RM Pusey that he was sorry for his actions and that it was caused by a sudden fit of anger.

Unmoved, however, by Peevus' attempts at mitigating his sentence, the magistrate then sentenced Peevus to 10 days in prison.

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