A policewoman was accused of using her position as a law enforcement officer to spite her brother after she accused him of hitting her close to her left eye during a dispute over the use of a television.

The policewoman and her brother reportedly got into a squabble at their mother’s home after the former wanted to watch television news and her brother wanted to watch a football match.

Abrahams was arrested and charged with unlawful wounding after he reportedly grabbed his sister by her neck, squeezed her throat, hit her in the face, and used a blunt object to hit her over the eye causing a cut.

However, on Thursday when the matter was mentioned, the prosecutor told the court that since the incident, the brother had called his sister and had threatened her, and that she has since given the police a statement. The court also heard that the threat was recorded.

But the prosecutor told Magistrate Wolf-Reece that he is yet to see the charges for the threat.

However, the allegation about the threat was challenged by the brother’s lawyer, who told the court that the report about threat was “absolute nonsense”.

“What she has been doing is using her post to bring undue pressure,” the lawyer told the magistrate, “Nothing of the sort took place.”

The brother’s bail was subsequently extended for him to return to court on November 26 for trial.

According to court documents on July 26 the complainant went to visit her mother at her home in the Kingston 8 area and was in the living room watching the television news when the accused and his daughter arrived.

While watching the news, the programme broke for a commercial when Abrahams reportedly switched the channel.

It is reported that about five minutes later the complainant asked her mother to put back the channel on the news when her brother started to curse, using expletives, and ordered his mother not to touch the remote.

The complainant was reportedly attempting to get up to unplug the television when her brother grabbed her by the neck and used his left hand to choke her, while using the other hand to hit her in her face.

It is also reported that the brother used a blunt object to hit the complainant in her face, causing it to cut and bleed.

The matter was reported and he was arrested and charged.