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Jul 17, 2012 News
– fears police will again accept bribe
Lynette Hinds, 48, is seeking a fair hearing against her abusive reputed husband, whom she fears will once again evade the law and come after her.
Hinds said that the man, a fruit vendor, is in usual contact with many influential people. She said that these people help keep him out of jail.
The woman said that she has made several reports to the La Grange Police Station against the man with whom she shared an 18-year long relationship.
The man reportedly got off a few years ago with a stern warning from the Magistrate for physically abusing Hinds. However, for this recent matter, the two made their last Court appearance on Friday.
Hinds says she is convinced that the case would be dismissed since the Police are not calling the main witness.
She said that the man’s son was at home at the time of the attack which occurred after midnight in early December last year, at the couple’s Canal #2 Polder home.
According to the mother of two, she had just returned from seeing her daughter-in-law in the Hospital, and had taken up a seat beside her reputed husband in their hammock inside the bottom flat of their home, when she realized what he was up to.
“Ah come home like around seven and he was sitting in the hammock, so I went and sit with he. But then when I realized he looking around, I know he de looking fuh something fuh beat or chop me with. So, I didn’t say anything. I get up easy, walk outside and bolt the door”.
Hinds said that after she realized that the man would get to her through the back door which could not have been locked from the outside, she ran and hid in the “outside bathroom”.
And as she sensed that the man was approaching from the right side of the bathroom wall, Hinds said she pushed the door and ran back into the house.
The woman admitted that she then had a “busing out” with the man, before falling asleep.
She recalled it being some time after midnight when the man started calling out to her.
Assuming that he had sobered up, Hinds said she opened up the door to let him in, but before she could make her second step back into the house, he began to beat her in the head with a “clothes beater.”
The woman said that she injured both of her hands as she put up a fight.
She added that it was only when her stepson rushed downstairs that the man stopped hitting her.
Her stepson was the one, she explained, who made a report to the La Grange Police Station on her behalf.
She added that the boy, who is a teenager like her daughter, ensured that she received treatment for her wounds, and returned home safely.
But by then, Hinds said her common law husband was nowhere to be seen.
Nonetheless, the woman said that her relatives spoke to the man, and made him believe that “they would settle the story”, before handing him over to the police.
Hinds further told this publication that she does not even know of what charges have been brought against the man, since it was never even announced in the court.
As far as the “crown witness” is concerned, the woman believes that the court should have summoned the man’s son, who was there when the incident occurred.
She however, made it clear that she has no issue with the man’s son, and does not want him to get into any trouble, but still needs to get justice.
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