A Rastafarian who is accused of stabbing his lover and cutting a taxi driver in his face was granted $30,000 bail in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

The accused, 39-year-old Dwight Codling from a Kingston 20 address, was charged with two counts of unlawful wounding, two counts of malicious destruction of property and assault occasioning bodily harm.

Codling, who pleaded not guilty to the charges, told the court that the incident occurred after he went to a house and caught the taxi driver and his lover naked.

Codling being upset said that he then decided to beat them.

The allegations in the case, however, are that on November 11, about 11 p.m., a taxi operator drove the accused man's common-law wife to her gate and was in the process of assisting her with some goods out of his vehicle when Codling approached them with a knife.

It is alleged that the knife was used to cut the driver in his face and stab the woman all over her body. It is also alleged that the female complainant was kicked all over her body.

It is further claimed that Codling entered the complainant's house, where he damaged her windows with a knife. It is also alleged that he punctured the taxi driver's car tyres.

The complainant told Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey that since the incident she has been receiving death threats on her mobile phone.

"Your Honour, he left messages on my phone that he is gonna kill me and burn down the house when him come out of prison," she said.

However, the accused denied the allegations and told RM Pusey that he is not guilty of the charges. He is to return to court on January 7 when the matter will be mentioned as the medical report is outstanding.