Wife drops assault charges against husband

Domestic abuse is often reported to the police and then regularly dismissed in Court. And today at Magistrate Court number one, twenty-eight year old Claudia Saunders told Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie that she does not want any further court action against her alleged attacker and husband, thirty-five year old Brian Saunders. On Friday, nightclub owner Brian Saunders approached his wife, Claudia, the Operations manager at the Belize Zoo, cranked a nine millimeter pistol and pointed it at her. He then dragged her to his pick-up truck, forced her inside and drove to Democracia, known as Satellite City, a short distance away. Once at the location, Claudia says Brian fired a shot in the air, punched and kicked her and even threatened her life. After all that, Saunders was spared by his wife of charges including aggravated assault with a firearm, harm, damage to property, and usage of threatening words. He, however, could not escape the charge of discharging a firearm in public. For that Saunders was offered a bail of five hundred dollars and his case was adjourned until September eighteenth.