44-year-old husband chokes teen wife

…over cell phone call
Yesterday, at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court, a probation officer was asked to step in after a 44-year-old man was charged with assault causing actual bodily harm on his 19-year-old common law wife, Stacey Stanley.
Presiding over the case was Magistrate Alex Moore.
It is alleged that on June 22, last, at the couple’s home at 77 Area E, Ogle, East Coast Demerara, Gavin McPherson, choked his teen wife and threatened to kill her during an argument over a cell phone call.
Court documents revealed that on the night in question, Stanley who is a mother of a one-year-old son went to a party. When she returned to their home, an argument resulted over a phone call the victim received. Her assailant then reportedly choked her and threatened to kill her. According to medical reports, the victim sustained swelling to the anterior region of her neck.
The matter was later reported and McPherson was subsequently charged for the said offence.
Mc Pherson, in his defence, said, “When I entered the bedroom, she was on the bed on her cell phone and I ask her to give me the phone and she press a set of buttons before she gave me and I snatch it from her.