2. The offences related to an incident in which the appellant threw rocks in the direction of two large dogs owned by a couple who eventually gave evidence in the case as PW3 and PW4. The dogs at the time of the incident were being walked on leashes by PW1 (the victim of the assault offence) who was employed by PW3 and PW4 as their domestic helper at that time.

3. The assault offence arose out of the throwing of rocks in the direction of the dogs by the appellant while they were being walked by PW1 having being found to have constituted an assault on PW1 in the sense that she, although not struck, was thereby put in fear of imminent violence. The criminal damage offence arose as a result of one of the thrown rocks having been found to have struck the nearby parked vehicle of PW2, who otherwise had no involvement in the case.