The island’s Chief Magistrate called on men in Barbados to stop putting their hands on women as he remanded a taxi driver who was captured on camera beating the mother of his child, even amid her pleas for him not to hit her.Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes declared that men needed to find better ways to resolve conflict with women, when 42-year-old Tony MacDonald Speedwell appeared before him on Friday for assaulting Erica Reid on August 2, causing her actual bodily harm.The video of the Rendezvous Terrace, Christ Church, man’s confrontation with Reid, which was recorded by one of the woman’s other children, went viral this week and triggered public outrage on social media.Speedwell said he “seriously regretted” what had happened and issued an apology to Reid who was not present in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court, even as he accused her of stepping out on him and embarrassing him throughout their almost six-year relationship.
