Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

A Rio Claro man ac­cused of as­sault­ing his moth­er-in-law, al­leged­ly caus­ing her to be­come par­tial­ly blind, has been freed af­ter the pros­e­cu­tion failed to com­ply with the court’s di­rec­tions.

Son­ny was dis­charged on a charge of wound­ing with in­tent to cause griev­ous bod­i­ly harm af­ter ap­pear­ing vir­tu­al­ly be­fore Mas­ter Kim­i­tria Gray. He was rep­re­sent­ed by at­tor­ney Ramesh Deena, in­struct­ed by Chris­t­ian Deena.

Son­ny was charged in con­nec­tion with an in­ci­dent on May 16, 2023, at Le­gendre Road, Ec­clesville, Rio Claro. It is al­leged that he was drink­ing pun­cheon rum with his moth­er-in-law and oth­er rel­a­tives when an ar­gu­ment erupt­ed be­tween him and his wife over pam­pers and milk. The dis­agree­ment re­port­ed­ly es­ca­lat­ed in­to a phys­i­cal al­ter­ca­tion.

When Son­ny’s moth­er-in-law at­tempt­ed to in­ter­vene and break up the fight, she was struck sev­er­al times in the face and fell to the ground. Her left eye was re­port­ed to be bulging, and she was tak­en to hos­pi­tal for treat­ment. She sub­se­quent­ly lost sight in one of her eyes.

At a suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ing on Wednes­day, the pros­e­cu­tion in­formed the court that the charg­ing of­fi­cer was on va­ca­tion. The pros­e­cu­tor sub­mit­ted that he was un­able to com­ply with the May 1, 2025, sched­ul­ing or­der, as he had not re­ceived a com­plete file from the charg­ing of­fi­cer, de­spite mak­ing sev­er­al at­tempts to ob­tain it.

Notwith­stand­ing the pros­e­cu­tion’s non-com­pli­ance, Mas­ter Gray not­ed that no ap­pli­ca­tion for an ex­ten­sion of time had been filed and sub­se­quent­ly dis­charged Son­ny.