Bail for wife charged with subjecting husband to '18 minutes of violence'
A mother-of-two who allegedly subjected her husband to “18 minutes of violence” inside the couple’s kitchen and later filed a false rape report to the police was granted bail in an arraignment that ended on a “surreal” note. This was when the victim offered to try to put together the necessary cash for his wife's bail bond, preventing her from being held in custody. The alleged incident dated back to January 7 when the 36-year-old llegedly turned upon her husband with full force, attacking him with her fists, a rolling pin and pans. As the man lay on the kitchen floor, pleading with her to stop, she allegedly grabbed a kettle and poured boiling water over him, said prosecuting Inspector Eman Hayman during her arraignment on Thursday. The incident was captured on a security camera installed in the kitchen at the couple’s St Paul’s Bay apartment. That footage, together with a first-hand account by the accused’s two minor sons, aged 14 and eight, ultimately led to criminal action against the woman who, after the violent episode, had turned up at the Domestic Violence Unit with a very different story. The woman went to the police alleging she had been harassed and raped by her...