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Feb 29, 2012 News
Two sisters were obviously not familiar with the scriptures of the bible, “…honour your mother and father and your days will be longer.”
They appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate Court yesterday to answer charges of assault and threatening language which they committed against their father.
The 17-year-old and her 14-year-old sister appeared before Magistrate Allan Wilson to answer charges that they attacked their father with weapons because he sought to correct one of them for coming home at 3am from a recently held post Mashramani concert.
The girls however escaped harsh punishments after they were released and reprimanded strongly by the Magistrate.
The police said that the incident took place at North Sophia on Friday.
According to the prosecution, the victim, Brian Singh is the father of both girls and on the day in question, the 14-year-old daughter came home in the early hours of the morning after attending the Pop Caan and Tony Matterhorn show at the GFC ground on North Road. The teen had not been given permission to attend.
The prosecutor said that the father refused to accept the girl in the house at that time causing her to become upset. The girl and her father engaged in an exchange of words which caused the other sister to intervene and this eventually led to a scuffle between the three.
One of the daughters eventually picked up a chopper and threatened to burst her father’s head. Her other sister grabbed hold of a broken glass bottle. The matter was reported to the police station where investigations were conducted. They were both arrested after being told of the allegations.
The sisters pleaded guilty to the charge but told the court that the police’s information was incomplete. The older teen said that the police’s facts did not contain all of what happened because she only picked up the chopper after her father threatened to kill her sister. The elder girl also said that her father told them that he was not afraid to go to jail since it would not be his first time.
The young lady said that the father also threatened to “bore” them and as a result she became afraid.
Magistrate Wilson urged the girls to pay attention to their education and warned that the street was no place for a young lady at the dawning of the day. He also told them that the court was not a place that they should be visiting at this stage of their lives.
The two were discharged of the assault charge while the threatening language charge was dismissed.
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