Youth owns up to lashing aunt with cutlass

Magistrate Douglas Frederick yesterday admonished a young man who assaulted his aunt by hitting her with a cutlass.

Zachery Carlo Massiah, 24, of Ellerton Housing Area, St George, admitted that he unlawfully and maliciously wounded aunt Karen Risbrook on November 1, 2025.

Prosecutor Constable Tammisha Knight revealed to the District “B” Magistrates’ Court, sitting at the Eric Holder Jr Municipal Complex, that Massiah and Risbrook resided in different houses on the same property.