MATTRESS FIGHT

Two ex-lovers were placed before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court last week for fighting over a mattress.

According to the woman, she had left the mattress at her ex-lover’s home after their relationship ended, but he refused to give it to her when she asked for it.

The two — McPherson and Julianne Morgan — then found themselves on the wrong side of the law after Morgan went to her ex-man’s home in Kingston and used a knife to cut up the mattress. This resulted in her being physically assaulted by McPherson.

She subsequently reported the matter and Morgan was charged with malicious destruction of property while McPherson was charged with assault occasioning bodily harm.

On Friday when they appeared in court, they both pleaded guilty.
But Morgan, in her defence, told Parish Judge Maxine Ellis that she was the rightful owner of the mattress and had left it at McPherson’s house.

“It’s my mattress, I want it back and him don’t want give it back to mi,” she said while pointing out that she had only given the mattress “one stab”.

McPherson, for his part, told the court that he did not really assault Morgan.

“’She just appear a mi house and start cut up mi mattress and mi just hold her a little firm,” he said.

“Where is the mattress now?” Judge Ellis asked.

“At home,” McPherson added.

“Even after she mash it up and stab it up, you still a keep it? It is sad,” the judge told McPherson.

Further to that, she told him that it was very hard for her to give him a conviction in light of how stupid he had acted and given the fact that he will have to wait five years to clear his record.

“It is so weird,” Ellis said.

She then told Morgan that she would be charged $5,000 for damaging the mattress while McPherson would be charged $5,000 for handling her too firm.

If the fines are not paid, they will spend 10 days in jail.