OK, he is accused of going on vacation there and slashing his wife's throat and leaving her for dead by the side of the road...then, thinking she was dead and couldn't ID him as her attacker, going to police station and claiming some black Jamaican guy did it.
Does he honestly think the other inmates there in the jail are going to like him?
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Jesse McLean
Staff Reporter
Toronto Star
The lawyer for an Ajax teacher accused of slashing his wife’s throat and leaving her for dead during their Jamaican vacation said his client is being mistreated by other inmates as he awaits trial.
A magistrate will be inspecting the local police station’s holding cells on Tuesday after Paul Martin’s lawyer complained about the conditions.
“I have concerns about how the other prisoners are treating him,” said Ernest Smith, declining to elaborate on his concerns about the jail where Martin has been held since the Dec. 23 incident.
Martin was denied bail at a preliminary hearing Friday, where reports say he sat passively as witnesses described finding his wife on an isolated coastal road, blood gushing from her throat.
In mid-December, the 43-year-old elementary school teacher vacationed to a Montego Bay resort with his wife, Cathy-Lee Martin.
Martin believed his wife was having an affair and used the trip to stabilize their six-year marriage, his lawyer said.
But instead of driving to the airport after they checked out the hotel, Martin drove their rental car in the opposite direction, the wife testified in December.
He said he wanted to take photographs of a cliff. However, after turning onto a secluded road, he allegedly slit her throat twice with a knife and choked her, she told the court, a thick bandage still wrapped around her neck.
When she asked why he attacked her, Martin accused his wife of having an affair — a claim she denies. She said he jumped out of the car and was rescued by a passing motorist.
Martin told police a carjacker had stabbed his wife.
Does he honestly think the other inmates there in the jail are going to like him?
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Jesse McLean
Staff Reporter
Toronto Star
The lawyer for an Ajax teacher accused of slashing his wife’s throat and leaving her for dead during their Jamaican vacation said his client is being mistreated by other inmates as he awaits trial.
A magistrate will be inspecting the local police station’s holding cells on Tuesday after Paul Martin’s lawyer complained about the conditions.
“I have concerns about how the other prisoners are treating him,” said Ernest Smith, declining to elaborate on his concerns about the jail where Martin has been held since the Dec. 23 incident.
Martin was denied bail at a preliminary hearing Friday, where reports say he sat passively as witnesses described finding his wife on an isolated coastal road, blood gushing from her throat.
In mid-December, the 43-year-old elementary school teacher vacationed to a Montego Bay resort with his wife, Cathy-Lee Martin.
Martin believed his wife was having an affair and used the trip to stabilize their six-year marriage, his lawyer said.
But instead of driving to the airport after they checked out the hotel, Martin drove their rental car in the opposite direction, the wife testified in December.
He said he wanted to take photographs of a cliff. However, after turning onto a secluded road, he allegedly slit her throat twice with a knife and choked her, she told the court, a thick bandage still wrapped around her neck.
When she asked why he attacked her, Martin accused his wife of having an affair — a claim she denies. She said he jumped out of the car and was rescued by a passing motorist.
Martin told police a carjacker had stabbed his wife.
