TWENTY-YEAR-OLD Donald Clarke, of Lot 2034 Hummingbird Street, Festival City, Georgetown, was yesterday sentenced to three years imprisonment for wounding his mother.

It happened at his second appearance before Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle, when he pleaded guilty to having feloniously wounded Sudamay Clarke, last June 14, with intent to maim, disfigure, disable or cause her grievous bodily harm.

Police Inspector Denise Griffith, prosecuting, said the prisoner and the virtual complainant live in the same house and he would usually assault her but she did not always report the attacks.

The Prosecutor said the victim was sweeping her kitchen that day when her son went to the stove to take off a pot and she told him she would have to sweeten the contents.

He became annoyed, took a knife from the wares rack and stabbed her to the left side ribs and repeated the stabs after she fell while trying to run away from him, Griffith said.

The convict used indecent language when stating that he was sweeping and his mother was in the way, so he wounded her.

Clarke was not required to plea when he first appeared in Court and Police Corporal Sherwin Matthews, prosecuting then, had said a doctor would need to pronounce on whether the accused could stand trial.

Matthews had said Clarke “trips off” and his sister, Michelle Carroll reported that her sibling was a patient in the Psychiatric Ward of Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).