A mason, who claimed that stress from having two ‘baby mothers’ caused him to break into a house, was a part of the drama, which unfolded in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court last week.

Usep Blackwood, 24, of Grant’s Pen Road, St Andrew, was arrested and charged with housebreaking and larceny after he entered a house on Barbican Road in Kingston and stole a television and a laptop computer on September 29.

However, on Friday when he appeared in court, he pleaded guilty but claimed that he was under stress.

“Your Honour it because of stress, stress from having two baby mada,” he said.

“Because of the stress I basically strayed and go take out the TV and then I go back and take out de laptop,” revealed McPherson.

The young man then appealed to Magistrate Grace Henry McKenzie to be lenient on him as he is the only breadwinner for his children.

“A begging some mercy Your Honour. Jus de oda day my baby mother come by the station and me have to beg the officer $200 to give her cause a me alone a work,” he said.

The magistrate after listening to him requested a social enquiry report and remanded him into custody for sentencing.

Woman remanded in acid attack

A woman who reportedly poured a scandal bag of caustic soda on another woman in a dispute over a man, was denied bail in court on Friday.

The accused woman, Taj-Marie Jones, 24, of Greenwich Town in Kingston, is charged with assault occasioning grievous bodily harm.

The court heard that before the incident, Jones had sent threatening and derogatory voicemail messages to the complainant from an unknown number.

According to the police report, the accused told the complainant in one of the messages that she was going to cause her private part to rot.

However, on the day of the incident on September 22, the complainant was sitting in her car when the accused, whom she had seen walking by, reportedly went for a bag of caustic soda and poured it on the complainant causing burns to her face and hand.

Jones’s lawyer, Diane Jobson, told the court that her client acted out of hurt but denied that her client had sent any messages to the complainant.

“Your Honour, what hurt her is that she had gone over this man’s home to wash his clothes and clean his house and was there when he brought a woman in his car,” Jobson said.

She also told the court that her client was extremely remorseful and begged the magistrate to offer her bail on humanitarian grounds as she suffered a miscarriage while in custody.

The magistrate, Grace Henry McKenzie seemed as if she was considering granting Jones bail, but after the complainant appeared in court with the gruesome looking injury, the magistrate told Jobson that she was not minded to grant her client bail.

Jones was remanded until October 16.

Man remanded after complainant goes missing

A man who was reportedly involved in a fight with another man over a woman, found himself in deeper trouble after the court heard that the complainant had gone missing.

Phillip Morgan was initially charged with unlawful wounding and assault occasioning bold harm stemming from a fight that he reported had during a dispute on June 21 at Tom’s River in West Rural St Andrew.

According to police reports, the complainant was at a standpipe with Morgan when they had a dispute over a woman. It is reported that Morgan hit the complainant on his wrist with a stone and used a water bucket to knock him down.

The matter was reported, and Morgan was arrested and charged but was released on station bail.

However, when the matter was mentioned in court on October 3, the court was told that the complainant had gone missing, and as a result, Morgan’s bail was revoked for him to be questioned by the police.

But on Friday when he retuned to court, the liaison officer informed the court that the complainant was still missing and that police had found the complainant’s cellular phone in Morgan’s girlfriend possession.

The liaison officer also told the court that the police was also collecting statements from persons who Morgan would have told certain things.

The prosecutor also informed the court that prior to the complainant’s disappearance, Morgan had approached him and had offered him money to drop the case.

However Morgan’s attorney, Lloyd Sheckleford, questioned why his client was being kept in custody without any real evidence that he had committed a crime.

“These are troubling times and we have to be careful, but let us not look for a nexus where there is none,” he said.

The magistrate however ruled that Morgan should remain in custody and scheduled the matter for October 18 for further update from the investigator.

Soldier douses fiancé with hot water

A soldier, who reportedly doused his fiancé with a pot of hot water after she decided to end their relationship, was also brought before the court.

It is alleged that the accused, Jermaine McPherson, also stabbed the complainant on her leg, and pepper sprayed her during the alleged incident.

According to the police, McPherson’s fiancé confessed to him that she had being unfaithful in their relationship and consequently told him that she wanted to end their relationship.

On September 30, the complainant was at their home when an argument between her and McPherson started.

It is reported that McPherson punched the complainant in her face and then used a knife to stab her in the left leg.

It is further reported that McPherson also pepper sprayed his fiancé before pouring a pot of hot water on her.

The matter was reported and McPherson was taken into custody and charged with unlawful wounding and assault occasioning bodily harm.

However, on Wednesday when the matter was mentioned in court, the complainant was absent but the liaison officer informed the court that she did not wish to pursue the matter any further.

But the Magistrate Lorna Shelly Williams rescheduled the matter for November 7 for the complainant to inform the court in person of her desire to end the matter.

McPherson’s bail was extended.

Fake doctor gets bail extension

An alleged fake doctor who reportedly injected a substance into woman for her to get pregnant was also hauled before the court.

The accused, Derrick Palmer, is charged with obtaining money by false pretence, compounding, dispensing and storing drugs for sale, dispensing drugs without being registered, and breaches of the Medical Act.

According to police report, Palmer pretended as if he was a doctor and collected approximately $28,000 from a complainant and injected something inside her because she could not get pregnant.

On Thursday when the matter was mentioned, the magistrate rescheduled after the court heard that the file were incomplete. Palmer’s bail was extended for him to return to court on March 7.