Woman begs for son to clean her yard
There was more laughter in the court when a woman begged the court to order her son to clean up her yard, which she said he has filled with old furniture.
The 64-year-old woman told the court that she is unable to move around comfortably because of the number of old sofas and other upholstered items that her son, 30-year-old Omar Grey, has packed on the premises.
“Him do upholstering and from him start, every old ting him see — from front to back a mi yard full,” she said, eliciting laughter from the court.
“Please, I would like him to clean up mi yard. Him have a whole heap a junk in there and me caa walk in peace. I need him to clean up mi yard and me can’t tell him,” she pleaded with Parish Judge Chester Crooks, amidst laughter.
The judge, however, told her that if she is the owner she should take out a summons and have him removed from her premises.
But Grey told the court that he is unable to make it on his own presently, and questioned why he was being given a “fight” in life.
“Why when a little man a try mek it inna life dem always get prosecuted and de big man dem a do things and noboby naa trouble dem?” he asked Judge Crooks who told him that he should ask the police.
Grey was hauled before the court on a charge of unlawful wounding after he had flung a stone which hit his mother.
But while pleading guilty, he told the court that he threw the stone at someone else and didn’t know that it had caught his mother.
“The man use a piece of stone and knock mi ova and mi grab up a stone and was going afta him,”Grey said.
According to him, had he known that the stone had caught his mother he would have apologised to her.
His mother admitted to the court that Grey was involved in a dispute when she was hit, but also complained that she was unable to control him as he was a rum addict and a ganja smoker.
Consequently, the judge remanded Grey for psychiatric evaluation and sentencing on April 6.