Mauvette Mattadeen
A Jamaican woman is before a United States court for allegedly burning her husband with hot oil and chasing him with an axe.
The New Jersey Star Ledger reported
yesterday that the woman, 42, claimed she was acting in self-defence
when she attacked her husband on April 6 last year.
The husband, a taxi driver, also from Jamaica, wore a brace over his
scarred body when he appeared in court yesterday, the paper reported.
The woman is due back in court on February 22.
The Star Ledger reports
that the husband was sleeping in the couple’s apartment, “when his wife
sprayed him with an unknown chemical, causing a burning sensation in
his face and eyes.
“As he tried to rinse off the chemical in the shower, [the wife]
returned and doused him with a pot of hot cooking oil, authorities
said.”
He then reportedly ran from the shower as his wife chased him with an axe.
The paper reported that the attack occurred after the husband began proceedings for a divorce.
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