A man who deliberately ran over his wife with a motorcycle in a fit of rage at her alleged infidelity received a six month suspended sentence and probation in Magistrates' Court yesterday.

Dnarte Manuel Lima, 31, of Sleepy Hollow Drive, Hamilton Parish, had already pleaded guilty to assaulting his wife, Sonia Lima, and causing her actual bodily harm in Devonshire on April 27.

Lima received the suspended sentence for the assault and bodily harm charge while he was further burdened with a period of two years' probation for causing injury through reckless driving.

Surrounded by family and friends in the verdict's aftermath, Lima was quick to embrace his wailing mother, who shouted out "Thank you judge" as they left the court room together.

Lima's trial was initially wrapped up in late April, although sentencing was adjourned for six weeks for the compilation of a social inquiry report - a report which urged Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner not to put Lima in jail for the horrifying attack.

Lima's lawyer Venous Telford had told Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner that her client "snapped" because he believed that his wife - from whom he has been separated since April 18 - had been cheating with another man.

Crown counsel Wayne Caines revealed that at 11 a.m. on the day of the crime, Mrs. Lima was talking to her sister near the junction of Middle Road and Garthowen Road when Lima approached on a cycle and ploughed straight into her.

"The defendant slapped her in the cheek," Mr. Caines said, adding that she screamed at her sister to call the Police.

Attempting to escape to her car where her five-year-old daughter was watching the ordeal, Mrs. Lima was attacked from behind by her husband, who punched her to the ground and continued to hit and kick her on her face and body. Lying defenceless on the ground, Lima then rode over her on the bike a second time.

"He rode on top of her legs and revved the engine so, the back wheel was spinning on her legs," Mr. Caines had said.

Mrs. Lima was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital where doctors saw a shoe print on her forehead and extensive bruising and cuts across her body.

Four hours after the attack, Lima turned himself in at Hamilton Police Station.

"I caught my wife cheating last night," he told Police at the time while admitting to punching and kicking her.