Brother sent to continue psychotherapy

When Beckles, 24, of Chapel Land No. 2, St Philip, first appeared before Magistrate Bernadeth John in the District “C” Magistrates’ Court sitting at Oistins, he confessed to unlawfully assaulting Shamar Bayne on December 6 and again on December 8. He was remanded to the Psychiatric Hospital for evaluation, to return to court on January 9.

He was sentenced to a year’s probation and is to continue psychotherapy at the Psychiatric Hospital, under the supervision of the Probation Department. Failure to do either will mean a year in jail.

Prosecutor Sergeant Mary Eugene said the brothers shared a house owned by their mother. Bayne stays upstairs in the front bedroom and Beckles in the back one. She added the two have been having issues for some time, which ceased while Beckles was in jail. However, he was recently released and the row started again.

The complainant invited a friend over on December 7 to spend the night, and the next morning when they were both getting ready to leave the house, Beckles entered the bedroom with a knife in one hand and a fork in the other, asking his brother what he was doing in there.

“I thought I told you not to come in here,” he declared.

Meanwhile, Bayne’s friend stood between the brothers but did not say anything to Beckles, who went on to say that his brother was lucky that his friend was there.

Beckles then ordered the friend out of the bedroom and she and Bayne left the house. While Bayne was standing on the step, Beckles approached him with a bucket of broken glass bottles and a sword. He once again reminded him: “I thought I tell you don’t go in that house?”

Bayne did not respond and Beckles began throwing the broken glass at his brother, who ran away and missed being hit with any of the glass.

Beckles is currently on bail for five other matters.

(Sandra Downes)