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GeneralWPC, 21, and Superintendent?s wife, 37, fight on North Front Street

The reports made by the two women, however, differ, but regardless, as a result of the fight, police were forced to charge both women with wounding, as they had both inflicted wounds to each other at the end of the struggle.


According to a report given by Esperanza, the Superintendent?s wife, 37, on the above date, at about 10:50 p.m., whilst driving towards Central American Boulevard, she saw her husband in the company of a female.


She then said she attempted to get his attention by hitting the vehicle, but he did not stop, so she followed him until he arrived on North Front Street. She recognized the female he was with, she said, as a police officer.


The WPC then alighted from the vehicle and a struggle ensued between them, said Leal.


Then, in a separate police report taken that same day by police from the WPC of what transpired, WPC Gillett told police that at about 10:50 p.m., she received a ride from Superintendent Leal to the Patrol Branch. When she reached the corner of Central American Boulevard and Cemetery Road, she saw a vehicle behind her, and suddenly, the driver of the vehicle began blowing its car horn and bumping into the vehicle that she and the Superintendent were in.


Leal drove the vehicle until he arrived on North Front Street in front of the Belize City Council building, where Leal?s wife, who allegedly had been following the two, alighted from the passenger side of the vehicle.


A police report of Wednesday, August 24, 2005, said that WPC Gillett said that Mrs. Leal approached her and slapped her in the face, then she began to beat her, and told her that she was the Superintendent?s wife.


Gillett, said police, was seen suffering from injuries sustained to the face, right elbows and left wrist.


A medical certification issued by a doctor from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital classified Gillett?s injuries as wounding.


Leal, the Superintendent?s wife, was seen with abrasions to the neck and chest, and her injuries were classified as wounding, said a medical doctor of the KHMH.


Both Leal and Gillett appeared in the #4 Court in front of Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie.


They were offered bail of $1,000 each with one surety of the same amount, which they both met.


Superintendent Leal was unable to bail his wife, however, because, according to the rules, no police officer or public service worker can bail an individual, so a family member bailed Mrs. Leal

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