A woman left persons inside the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court this week stunned after she displayed neighbourly love and begged for bail for her neighbour who reportedly stabbed her twice, with two different knives which broke off inside her on both occasion.

Interestingly, the complainant’s plea for bail came immediately after the accused woman, Tashaun Skeen, 30, had accused the complainant of being a violent woman.

Skeen reportedly stabbed the complainant in the neck and then in the left shoulder, following a dispute over garbage and faeces at their Tower Hill home in Kingston.

The two reportedly got into a dispute on June 15 over a bag of rubbish that the complainant’s daughter burst and scattered in the yard and a container with faeces that Skeen’s daughter left in the yard.

Following the argument, it is reported that Skeen attacked the complainant and stabbed her in the neck while she was washing at a pipe in the yard. The knife broke off inside the complainant and the accused pulled another knife and stabbed the complainant in her shoulder, breaking that weapon too, it was reported.

The complainant was assisted by her daughter who pulled the knife out of her neck before she was taken to the hospital where she spent four days, while Skeen fled to the police station and reported the matter.

“Why you stab up the lady? Don’t answer me, just ask yourself that question,” Senior Magistrate Judith Pusey said to Skeen after hearing the chilling allegation.

Immediately after, the prosecutor told the magistrate that the police was objecting to bail because Skeen was a violent woman and that she and the complainant lived at the same place.

But Skeen denied that she was violent and told the magistrate that it was the complainant who was violent.

“Everybody know her in the community as a stabba and choppa woman. Her son have a scar below him eye, she chop him and she chop her daughter in har forehead and tell her not to report it,” Skeen said.

“Three weeks ago she slap a woman with a machete,” she continued. “She mek me don’t stay a my yard for 10 months. You can get somebody in the community and ask them bout har.”

However, shortly after Skeen finished speaking, the complainant asked for permission to speak and begged the magistrate to grant Skeen bail.

“Your Honour, wat happen wasn’t good, but send har home cause har children a cry every day say them want them mother,” the complainant said.

Pusey, after hearing the complainant offered Skeen $80,000 bail. She is to return to court on July 18.

Female stalker claims he is being stalked by females

Persons inside the court also had their fill of laughter after an alleged female stalker told the court that it was he who was being stalked by the females.

The accused man, Jevonne Francis, who is of a Harbour View address in St Andrew, appeared in court on a charge of attempted murder, following allegations that he trailed a woman who was coming from church, stabbed her and smashed her head against the ground.

However, when his lawyer, Philmore Scott, applied for bail, Pusey told him that she was not going to grant Francis bail as several complaints have been made against him at the police station and that the police say that he is a female stalker.

But Francis told the judge that, “It is the other way around.”

“Your Honour, I am a football player and when I am training the girls them follow me and a watch me,” he said amidst laughter from the court.

However, Scott persisted with his bail application, saying that Francis’ confinement was costing his mother too much money. Scott said that Francis’ mother had to purchase a sponge for him to sleep on in custody, which cost $10,000, and that someone stole the sponge and the mother now has to think of buying another. In addition, he said it is costing the mother a lot of money to feed Francis every day and it would be cheaper if he was home.

But Pusey insisted that she was not going to admit him to bail as he is delusional and needs to be examined by a psychiatrist. Furthermore, Pusey said the magistrate had a duty to keep him in custody and ensure that he gets treatment until he is fit to plea.

At that moment Francis interrupted the proceedings by shouting “Objection”.

When Pusey asked him what was the matter, he said: “I am staying in prison in a den by myself and I feel like I’m in a lion’s den.”

Pusey then told him that she would look into the matter before remanding him into custody until September.

Woman charged for urinating in police station

A young woman, whose 22nd birthday celebration ended in a nightmare, also appeared before the court, interestingly for urinating inside a police station.

Olivia Wilkinson, 22, who was also accused of assaulting a police officer, damaging his uniform and using indecent language, told the court that she went to Escape 24/7 in New Kingston to celebrate her birthday when the police held onto her and took her to the station.

According to Wilkinson, after she had finished partying she was standing outside the club when police officers approached her and asked her age. She said she told them but they did not believe her and took her to the station.

But Wilkinson said before she got to the station, police pepper-sprayed her with three bottles of pepper spray.

“Your Honour, when me reach the station them handcuff me hand and feet and have me on the ground for seven hours,” she said.

“I don’t understand how them just handcuff you,” Pusey said.

Wilkinson then explained that she was cursing bad words because she had been drinking.

In addition, one of her relatives told the court that Wilkinson was drunk and that the police officers had held onto her because she was about to walk out in the road in front of a car.

Wilkinson then explained that she urinated in the station because she was handcuffed and the officers refused to allow her to use the bathroom.

However, one of the investigating officers told the court that she threatened to defecate inside the station before she urinated, and was charged.

But Pusey was not in agreement with the officer’s decision to charge her for urinating inside the station.

“Then if unuh have her handcuff what unuh expect,” she said before ruling that the charge should be withdrawn along with the charge of malicious destruction of property.

Wilkinson was however fined $2,000 for assaulting a constable and using calumnious and abusive language. Each charge attracted a 10-day sentence if the fines are not paid.

Cook fights with customer over fried fish

A fish shop cook who hit one of his customers with a piece of wood during an argument over fried fish was told last week to never forget that the customer is always right.

The complainant was assaulted by Orlando Green at his cook shop on Duke Street in downtown Kingston after she ordered a fried fish but changed her mind after she got the fish, the court heard.

However, Green told the court a different story.

“Your Honour, this lady came to me shop to buy fish and de place was crowded, a bag a people deh deh and she a haste me fi fry har fish and me tell har say oda people deh before har and she start trace me and come up inna me face and a so it happen,” he said.

“You can’t lick har like dat. What happen to customer relationship, the customer is always right,” Pusey said.

Green then told the court that she poked him in his forehead.

But the complainant denied touching him.

“I never poked him. I tell him two feisty words and him friend dem on the corner say you can’t mek de gal a dis you and a style you like that,” she said.

Green also told the court that the complainant brought her husband to beat him.

But Pusey told him not to complain, as he started the war.

“Everybody want to turn vendor and them no memba bout good customer relationship,” Pusey remarked. “You should never do a thing like that, even if she diss you, word is wind.”

She then ordered him to pay a fine of $10,000 or serve six months.

But the complainant told the court that she had to visit the doctor and buy medication. As a result, Pusey told Green to give the complainant $10,000 but he told the court that he did not have any cash on him and was given until Wednesday to return with the money.

“A big businessman like you and you nuh come with no money,” Pusey said to Green.

Man gets 12 months for stealing handbag

A man who claimed his harsh living condition forced him to steal did not get any sympathy from the judge who sent him away for 12 months for robbery with aggravation.

Kirk McFarlane was arrested and charged after he held a knife at the complainant and grabbed her handbag containing her cellular phone and iPad.

However, when the matter was raised, McFarlane, after pleading guilty, related to the magistrate how hard his life was.

“Your Honour, a five CXCs me have and two certificates from the University of the West Indies Continuing Studies and me caan get nuh work,” he said.

The young man said that he tried to seek work at Hope Zoo to clean up the park, at Minott Services Limited as a garbage collector and at National Solid Waste Management Authority to sweep the streets, but with no luck.

“Your Honour, a garbage me a eat out,” he said. “Me even go down a Prestige a beg bread and them run me out of de line say me young and me fi go look work.”

“I am not a criminal. I am an educated man and me have me subjects. Me jus can’t get no work,” he lamented.

But Pusey was not impressed and told him that his circumstances were not unique and that he was too aggressive in his mitigation speech.

“You jus a chuck it on me, stop chuck it on me bout you have you CXCs and you can’t get no job, that don’t give you the right to hold up the lady with a knife and rob her bag, it better you did beg her a $100,” Pusey said.

The magistrate also lamented the fact that a number of people have been coming before her for robbery and issued a warning that those who are involved must be prepared for the consequences.

She then told the accused that she was going to give him three months, but the investigating officer told her that she must use him as an example and she gave him 12 months.

“Please, Miss Pusey, please, Miss Pusey,” McFarlane begged after the sentence was passed.