Man admits booze-fuelled stabbing
(CNS): Jonathan Alexander Woodhouse (24) has pleaded guilty to wounding another man in July outside a George Town bar in a booze-fuelled attack. Woodhouse admitted stabbing his victim during an altercation outside Vic’s Bar on North Sound Road and has asked prosecutors to drop the more serious charge against him of wounding with intent to do GBH, which would see the North Side man locked up for several years.
His defence attorney, Jonathan Hughes from Samson Law Associates, told the court that his client had not intended to seriously injure his victim but that alcohol was a major factor in the altercation.
However, the victim in the case, who took himself to hospital, was treated for life-threatening injuries.
According to the police report at the time, Woodhouse drove away after the altercation, but on his way home he crashed his car into columns outside a church on Frank Sound Road. This ultimately led to his arrest, not only for DUI but also for the stabbing.
Woodhouse was bailed to return to court on 4 October, when the case will be reviewed and a sentencing hearing held.
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Alcohol legal 7 days a week. But weed would never cause such violence, promotes peace and you can’t overdose on it.
Vic’s Bar is called Vic’s bar… 2 steps down is dump road bar….. two different places next to each other
This dude ain’t from North Side that’s for sure. He might be staying up there but he’s not from up there. We ain’t got no Woodhouse up there. Sure he doesn’t belong to Woodhouse from the series on Netflix called “Archer”? Either way who ever this guy is he needs to serve some serious time. From the damages I’ve personally seen on the guy he stabbed he MEANT everything he did…
The intent to do harm is there by you carrying a weapon! It’s not as if he’s at work and needs the item in conjunction with his work. It’s either an offensive or prohibited weapon. What’s he carrying it for??
1.09pm So if you want a lesser charge you drink half a dozen beers before you stab someone so you can plead it was the alcohol. I admit I’m not a lawyer but there needs to be accountability, is someone suffers life threatening injuries, in my book that is GBH and intent should not be a factor.
This reads like someone hitting a pedestrian due to DUI and asking for charges to be dropped because they were drunk.
Here is a solution – stop drinking (go to AA), get a haircut and get a (real) job!!!!!
Also, I thought DLK was the “dump road bar”. I suppose any bar on that road is a “dump bar”!! LOL
You are correct. Vic’s Bar is called Vic’s Bar and I suspect the stabbing did happen at DLK ( the real “dump road bar”
Good on you Jonathan for owning up to your mistake and taking ownership.
shut up, just shut up dawg.
Isn’t he from some other island? If so deport his rass.
He is a Caymanian. He was not born here but he is a Caymanian.
Why is it that GBH charges are almost always dropped, it makes a nonsense of listing the charge in the first place, it seems to be just a bargaining tool. This should never happen in cases of life threatening injuries.
He is definitely a bad egg.
Probably the difficulty of proving intent. Makes sense for the prosecutor to go with it (he went to the bar armed, etc.) and if you don’t get it fall back on wounding. When the defendant opts to plead down it puts the pressure on the DPP to be sure they can prove intent. And given how badly we talk about the DPP on here when they lose a case you can understand them taking the conviction. A win is a win.
We talk bad about them when they take impossible cases to trial and inevitably lose. This case is an obvious winner, at least as to wounding, and you can take both charges to trial. Their trial policy appears to be based on politics on one hand and laziness on the other.
Gotta do some time. No suspended sentences anymore.
Exactly! If you do the crime, expect to do the time!!!
Sounds like 10+ years in prison
You think? Kenroy Rowe got 6 years, upheld on appeal, for wounding with intent to cause GBH. Difficult to see how a guilty plea to a lesser charge is going to get anywhere near 10 – certainly not in excess of 6 – and that’s before the court knocks off a third for pleading guilty.