Forty-two-year-old Sherwin Patterson, a taxi driver of Zorg, Essequibo Coast, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) was on Tuesday sentenced to one month imprisonment for assaulting a 13-year-old school boy.
Jailed: Sherwin Patterson
Patterson reportedly wounded the teenager, a student of Cotton Field Secondary School on April 24, 2024, at Anna Regina. While the details of the assault were not released to the media, the suspect was arrested and charged.
He pleaded not guilty and a trial was initiated before Magistrate Tamieka Clarke at the Anna Regina Magistrate’s Court.
However, on Tuesday, the presiding magistrate found the defendant guilty of the charge and imposed the sentence.
