Senior Magistrate Leron Daly on Friday accepted a guilty plea from 47-year-old Rawle Thomas after an unlawful wounding charge was read to him for the second time in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Jailed for felonious wounding: Rawle Thomas
On his first appearance before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan, the minibus conductor of North Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was not required to plea to the indictable charge of attempted murder.
However, on Friday he admitted that on December 8, 2019, at North Ruimveldt, he unlawfully and maliciously wounded Akela Roger, his wife, so as to cause her actual bodily harm.
As such, Magistrate Daly imposed a three-year sentence.
According to reports, the now convicted man went home and began to accuse his wife of infidelity on the day in question. It was reported that the angry man collected a pot of boiling water from the stove and threw it on her. He then choked and stabbed her.
The woman attempted to escape, but she collapsed some distance away and was rescued by neighbours, who rushed to her assistance. She was picked up in an unconscious state and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation where she was hospitalised for a while.
