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Clarendon fisherman charged following machete on ex-girlfriend

Published:Monday | March 22, 2021 | 9:46 AM
The accused was charged on Friday with wounding with intent. His court date is being finalised.

Thirty-five-year-old Randy McKenzie, otherwise called 'Freddy', a fisherman of Portland Cottage in Clarendon has been charged in relation to a machete attack on his ex-girlfriend.

McKenzie was charged on Friday with wounding with intent.

His court date is being finalised.

The police report that about 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 16, McKenzie and a woman, with whom he had a relationship, got into an argument during which he used a stone to hit the woman before using a machete to chop her to the face and neck.

The police were summoned and McKenzie was arrested.

He was subsequently charged.

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