The appellant, Donnovan Junior McLean, appealed his convictions for assaulting his pregnant wife and her 14-year-old son with a weapon, as well as his sentence.
The trial judge had convicted him and sentenced him to 60 days intermittent imprisonment plus probation.
The appeal grounds for conviction included alleged errors in assessing self-defence, relying on an unproved prior statement, and relying on a theory of injuries not advanced by the defence.
The court found no material misapprehension of evidence by the trial judge and upheld her credibility findings.
The appeal against sentence was also dismissed, as the trial judge properly considered aggravating factors (domestic assault, assault on a young person in a position of trust) and the parity principle, finding the sentence appropriate and at the low end of the range.
