BY FRANCINE BLACK, Staff Reporter
THE FAMILIAR SAYING, 'a hungry man is an angry man' is actually true, the court learnt recently after a husband appeared to answer to the accusation that he knocked his wife unconscious because she did not make him a sandwich.
The couple, Eric and Enid Adams of a North Anderson Crescent address in Kingston 11, appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court where Eric pleaded guilty to assault occasioning grievous bodily harm.
It is alleged that on January 20 at 10 p.m., Mrs. Adams went home where she saw her husband. She went to the kitchen and allegedly made a sandwich for herself to eat. Her husband allegedly asked her to make one for him and she told him to make it himself.
Mrs. Adams then went to her room and shortly after the accused entered and allegedly said to his wife: 'Hey gal, mi notice you a hype.' The complainant allegedly replied saying, 'Mi not hyping, you must can make it yourself.'
REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS
The accused reportedly slapped her across the face and across her right eye. Mrs. Adams allegedly fell on the bed and became unconscious for a few minutes. When she regained consciousness, she called the police who told her to come to the station and make a report.
She did this on January 28 and later that day the accused went to the station where he was pointed out by his wife and arrested and charged.
Mr. Adams told the court he did not mean to hurt his wife and was only upset because he got nothing to eat. 'Mi run a taxi and mi come een and mi see har a partake, suh mi go look inna di kitchen and mi nuh see nutten, mi look inna di microwave and mi nuh see none. Suh mi seh 'Weh mi food de?' and she seh 'Yuh caan mek it yuh self', he told the court. 'To be honest Your Honour mi neva lick har wid di intention fi do nutten."
However, Senior RM Martin Gayle, questioned the force with which he hit the complainant to have made her unconscious. Before passing sentence Mrs. Adams asked the RM to "just talk to him." The couple were sent to the Dispute Resolution Foundation to work out their problems. They return to court on March 31.
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