Boxing champ gets five years for chopping wife, mother-in-law

May 22, 2012 News

Former bantamweight and Caribbean Boxing Federation champion, Dexter Marques, will be

Dexter Marques

spending the next 59 months behind bars for wounding two females last year.
The sentence was handed down by Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
According to the facts, Marques had wounded two females to cause them actual bodily harm. The man had chopped the mother of his children and his mother-in-law after an altercation. When the mother-in-law intervened in a matter with his partner, she was wounded.
Marques was sentenced to five years on each count. However, the sentences would run concurrently.
The prosecution had proved its case against the defendant and the Magistrate handed down the sentence.
Marques is a well known figure in the boxing world having won prestigious boxing matches.