Nassau-A man who punched his uncle during a row has been cautioned and discharged.
Perez Hepburn, 36, admitted a charge of assault when he appeared before Senior Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans on March 25.
Police arrested him for striking Richard Hepburn at Dorsett Street in Fox Hill on May 22.
Hepburn told the court that he intervened because his uncle was disrespecting his grandmother.
According to Hepburn, his uncle came to the home drunk and started calling his grandmother names.
Hepburn claimed that his grandmother often complained about her son to him.
He said his uncle doesn’t live with them but is a nuisance when he visits.
Hepburn said he only hit his uncle once. The court heard that he didn’t sustain any injury.
Hepburn said his grandmother depended on him.
However, the magistrate told Hepburn that he was out of order because the house does not belong to him.
She said that his grandmother needed to take legal action if she didn’t want her son around her place. Vogt-Evans said the grandmother could ask the court to issue a restraining order.
Vogt-Evans also told Hepburn that if his uncle had fallen when he struck him, he would have been in court on a more serious charge.
