August 11 date Set for Testicle Grabbing Case

Some weird matters have been coming to the court rooms of Kingston as of late that makes me ponder now this latest in a series of man on man or man accusing other men of touching or grabbing is one to ponder usually cases such as these in times past tend to fizzle in court or are adjourned sine die as arresting officers can't be bothered to continue at the resident magistrate level anyway.

More serious cases of grievous sexual assault (anal play without a penis usually a tongue or device) or buggery that go to the Supreme Court are not treated lightly however and usually accused when found guilty serve the full sentences.

Man attacks senior who grabs his testicles

A gym instructor accused of beating up a man for a bag of charcoal told the court that he assaulted the man after he grabbed onto his testicles.

Jerome Sculley, 24, of Melbrook Heights, Harbour View in Kingston, was arrested and charged on May 10, with simple larceny and assault occasioning bodily harm.

Allegations are that around 8:30 am the complainant, who sells charcoal from a van, was exiting the Melbrook Heights community when Sculley approached him and begged him some of his coal. The complainant reportedly refused and Sculley pulled a bag of coal from the van and then grabbed at the 64-year-old complainant and threw him on the ground, before punching him all over his body.

Individuals who saw what was happening reportedly went to the complainant's aid and he ran to the police station and reported the matter.

However, Sculley denied the allegations. He told the court that he went to buy coal when a little boy came off the van and started using indecent language to him and he held onto the boy and asked him if he knew him and was attacked by the complainant.

"This man come out a nowhere and grabbed on pon me balls and when him grabbed on pon me balls me punch him," he said. "I was never beating him up, I was never punching him up."

Following Sculley's explanation the magistrate told him that she would have to send the matter to trial as he was acting in self-defence, if his story was true.

The matter was then scheduled for trial on August 11 and Sculley's bail was extended.

I find it a bi strange, self defence from what? if if this is true grabbing a man's testicle is not the same as trying to chop it off or causing any other harm, is this judge buying the implied sodomatical attack line here or the usual gay panic defence.

I was expecting a more gross indecency charge or a lesser charge seeing that maybe the older man felt he was too weak to attack an obvious bulky gym instructor type so he went after the best place that could weaken him and not make him over power the older man. 

Wonder where this one is going though, gonna have to try and follow it up and see but as said in the introduction some weird cases are coming to the fore and I wonder if the courts have time to waste on some of these matters.

Meanwhile there is deafening silence on the John Terry issue as was to have been mentioned last Friday but checking with sources for some details on that of if it was heard or mentioned at all as it some four years plus and that matter can't seem to get off the ground.

June 25 was the last date - 

The case against Richard Ewen, the man charged with the 2009 murder of British consul John Terry, has been set for mention on July 4.

The case was called up in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate’s Court.

Ewen, who is of a Bull Bay address in St Andrew, received an extension of his bail from presiding magistrate Wilson Smith as the judge who had been hearing the case, Resident Magistrate Carolyn Tie, was absent.

Ewen was charged with Terry’s murder in October 2009 after he was found dead at his home in Mount Carey, St James, on September 10 that year.

Terry reportedly died as a result of strangulation.

Yesterday, Ewen’s attorney, Trevor Ho Lyn, sought to have the case deferred until a later date when RM Tie would be present to complete the matter.