Natalie Neita Headley has been arrested and charged with common assault following an altercation with a man in Spanish Town, St Catherine.
According to Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) spokesperson on sports and Member of Parliament (MP) for St Catherine North Central’s legal team, the alleged assaulted man is a former employee of the Petroleum Company of Jamaica Limited (PCJ) for which the MP serves in the capacity of a consultant in the human resource department.
Headley was on the premises of the PCJ where she was allegedly attacked by the former employee about an employment issue.
In a statement on the PNP’s Twitter account, her attorney, Sean Kinghorn claims that “the incident occurred in circumstances where Ms Neita Headley was attacked upon the premises of the Petroleum Company of Jamaica by the complainant concerning an employment issue.
Kinghorn claims the complainant “advanced upon his client in a violent fit of rage referring to her as a ‘b***h’ and a ‘dutty politician’.”
Kinghorn added that the three term MP, “in the face of that violent attack was constrained to defend herself as allowed in law.”
He says his client rejects any allegation or contention that she wronged the complainant and intends to vigorously defend the charge of common assault when the matter comes before the court.
