A woman who yesterday pleaded guilty to an unprovoked attack on her boyfriend’s sister, was sentenced to 60 days in prison when she appeared in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate’s Court.

The court was told yesterday that earlier this month, Cheryl Smith, a 28-year-old resident of Greenwich Town in Kingston, doused her boyfriend’s sister – the complainant in the matter – with a basin of water and then attacked her because the complainant allegedly laughed at her hairstyle. The complainant was left with several bruises to her face and a damaged lip.

“She (the complainant) ‘fatigue’ me your honour, she ‘fatigue’ me,. that day I was doing my hair and when I walked past her she laughed at me, your honour,” Smith told RM Judith Pusey.

In a surprising turn of events, however, the complainant began to appeal to Pusey not to send Smith to prison.

“Your honour, this (Smith) is the mother of my niece and wouldn’t want to put my niece through that to be deprived of her mother, your honour,” she said, between sobs. ” I love my niece and don’t want her mother to go to prison.”

Although commending the complainant for forgiving Smith, Pusey said that Smith needed to be punished for her actions.

“This kind of unprovoked violence cannot go unpunished,” the magistrate said.

She then sentenced Smith to 60 days’ imprisonment.