Mother/daughter team sentenced to prison

By Terresa McCall
Reporter-SKNVibes.com

~~Adz:Right~~ BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – FOR the next month, a woman and her daughter will be guests at Her Majesty’s Prison as penalty for their involvement in an incident of “battery” that occurred sometime last year.

According to information reaching SKNVibes, Mary Huggins and her 19-year-old daughter Akilah Huggins, both of Cunningham Estate, Cayon, appeared before the District ‘A’ Magistrate Court yesterday to answer a charge of battery.

According to the facts of the case, on October 29, 2007, both women went into KFC, located at the Bay Road, Basseterre, and together beat Petrona Thomas of Middle Island after they claimed she went ahead of them in the line.

SKNVibes understands that the victim went to the Basseterre Police Station and lodged a formal complaint.

The mother/daughter duo was convicted and sentenced to serve one month imprisonment each at her Majesty’s Prison.