MONTEGO BAY, St James — A Montego Bay man who allegedly beat up his girlfriend and stabbed her after their brief relationship turned sour, was offered bail in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate’s Court last week.

Thirty-year-old Otis Mayne of Flower Hill was offered bail in the sum of $80,000 with one or two sureties and warned to stay away from the complainant.

The court heard that Mayne had threatened to shoot the complainant and sent her threatening text messages and the prosecution said the complainant also knew him to have an illegal gun.

As a result the complainant has moved away from where she usually lived.

The allegations against the accused man are that he went to the complainant’s home on October 8 at around 7:00 pm where he attacked her with a knife, and asked for his cellular telephone which she said she threw away. He then used the back of the knife to hit her several times before stabbing her in the left shoulder.

She tried to escape to the neighbour’s house at which time he destroyed several items in her house valued at over $40,000.

However, Mayne’s attorney, Albert Morgan, told the court the couple met in May and got involved a month later at which time she invited him to move in with her and her four-year-old son.

In September after undergoing a medical procedure she asked for money to buy groceries and he gave her $2,000.

Some time later she again asked for money, saying she was going to visit someone in Granville and when he hesitated she started cursing him.

When he went home, the court heard, she threw out his things including a cell phone, which was destroyed.

The attorney told the court that it was the complainant who drew the knife and that when they were struggling with it, both of them got injured.

If Mayne takes up his bail offer, he will return to court on November 23.