Jail over hot sauce
By AZARD ALI Saturday, October 22 2011
SHELDON CHARLES’ impatience for pepper sauce from a doubles vendor at Claxton Bay junction, cost him his freedom for the next 15 months.
Senior San Fernando Magistrate Rajendra Rambachan yesterday told Charles of Couva, that of all places, where people assemble to satisfy that basic need of hunger, senseless acts should never be displayed.
On Wednesday, Charles struck a man twice with stones when the man prevented him from dipping his hands into the pepper sauce bowl of the doubles vendor.
Charles appeared before Rambachan on Thursday and pleaded guilty to maliciously wounding Kerwyn George.
Charles and George were among persons buying doubles on the day in question when Charles complained that he did not get enough hot sauce and demanded more.
When he failed to get the attention of the vendor, he attempted to place his hand into the container with the hot sauce to help himself. At that moment, George objected and a quarrel ensued between both men during which George was struck with stones.
Cpl Narine Ramlogan of the St Margarets Police Station later charged Charles who subsequently told the court that he was drunk at the time of the incident.
The magistrate later jailed Charles for 15 months while advising George of his right to seek compensation for injuries in the High Courts.
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