Police charge ex-husband
with kidnapping, assault

The man is accused of stabbing
and burning his former wife

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Star-Bulletin staff

Honolulu police last night charged Clinton Vincent, 38, with kidnapping, assault in the second degree and attempted first-degree assault.

Vincent allegedly stabbed his ex-wife, burned her with a soldering iron and barricaded her in a bedroom of her Kuhio Park Terrace apartment Wednesday morning. His bail was set at $500,000.

Vincent's ex-wife, 40, was taken to Queen's Medical Center in critical condition with a stab wound in her chest and burns to her face.

Her condition has since improved to guarded.

Vincent was prohibited from making contact with his ex-wife under terms of a protective order issued last October.

He was serving a six-month prison term for abusing her at the time. He has three other convictions for abuse of his ex-wife.