Barbados cricketer, Shaqkere Parris, pled guilty to the charge of battery on taxi operator, Ian Joseph, when he appeared in the Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.
The West Indies Academy player was ordered to pay $1500.00 in seven days or spend seven days in prison. He was also ordered to pay $500 in compensation to Joseph within seven days or spend seven days in prison.
Reports are that Parris, who recently toured Sri Lanka with the West Indies Academy squad for a multi-format series, physically assaulted Joseph at the team’s hotel after the operator refused to board him as a passenger following a heated conversation regarding an earlier incident involving a female colleague.
The top-order batsman is said to have pushed and punched the driver after the taxi operator removed his luggage from the vehicle.