WESTERN BUREAU:

A St James man accused of cutting his babymother with a machete and resisting the police's attempts to arrest him, was remanded in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Friday.

Troy Bowen, from Granville, pleaded guilty to assault contrary to the common-law and unlawful wounding against Dorette Young. He also pleaded guilty to resisting arrest, assaulting a constable, using indecent language and possession of ganja. He will be sentenced today.

Allegations say on February 2, Bowen and Young were involved in a dispute, during which Bowen used a machete to cut the complainant on her chest. The police were summoned, and Bowen pushed away one of the officers who tried to arrest him. He was subsequently slapped with the multiple charges.

"I say, Father God, I'm sorry, your honour," Bowen told Resident Magistrate Sandria Wong-Small.

"I find it interesting that you're calling His name when, at the time of this incident, you should have been calling it for you coming here," RM Wong-Small replied.

"I wasn't really resisting the police, but I am afraid of jail. I hold up my right hand, it won't happen again," Bowen declared.

"Mind how, when you hold up your right hand, lightning strike you on the spot," the magistrate warned him.

RM Wong-Small ordered that a social enquiry report be prepared for Bowen.

"So am I on bail?" Bowen inquired.

"No, you are remanded in police custody until then," RM Wong-Small told him, at which point Bowen broke down in despondency before being taken out of the courtroom.