Tag: grievous bodily harm
Fight at police station lands man in court
(CNS): A 49-year-old-man from Bodden Town was due in court today charged with assault GBH and two counts of intentional harassment, alarm and distress in relation to a fight at the Bodden Town Police Station Wednesday evening. The man was at the station when another member of the public entered. The second man was then […]
Woman charged with GBH after weekend stabbing
(CNS): A 49-year-old woman from West Bay was due to appear in court Monday after stabbing another woman in the hand following an altercation near Kelly’s on Birch Tree Hill Road around 2am on Saturday morning. According to the RCIPS, two men and two women were involved in a brawl; when one of women left […]
GT man denies GBH charges stemming from fight
(CNS): Courtney Ryan (25) appeared in Grand Court on Friday and pleaded not guilty to two GBH charges in connection with a serious stabbing that happened at a home in Watler’s Road earlier this year. Ryan is accused of puncturing the lung of an older man, whom he knew, during a fight just before midnight […]
Teen jailed for 44 months over serious stabbing
(CNS): An 18-year-old man from George Town was given a sentence of three years and eight months after he admitted stabbing Tyrell Smith multiple times outside Margaritaville on Harbour Drive last summer. Lyle Alexander Samson Peart was charged with both attempted murder and GBH wounding with intent in connection with a fight in the early […]
WB woman arrested after barroom stabbing
(CNS): A 26-year-old woman from West Bay has been arrested on suspicion of assault GBH after a stabbing at a George Town bar early Wednesday morning. Police said that a man was stabbed, sustaining a serious injury to his chest, during an altercation with a woman known to him at the Cotton Club on Shedden […]
BT man charged with beating woman
(CNS): A 28-year-old Bodden Town man was expected in court Tuesday, having been charged with GBH following a weekend in custody. The man was arrested last Thursday by police after a woman who had been badly beaten arrived at the hospital early that morning. Staff in emergency services called the police when the woman turned up […]
Two men charged following bar brawl and collision
(CNS): A 46-year-old-man from George Town who had handed himself into police last week following a violent brawl outside a bar on Shedden Road last Tuesday night has been charged with assault GBH. A second 39-year-old man from George Town has also been charged with causing fear of provocation of violence in connection with the same […]
Teen faces lengthy sentence over barroom brawl
(CNS): Lyle Alexander Samson Peart (18), from George Town, is facing a lengthy custodial sentence after pleading guilty on Friday to GBH, despite having a previous clean record. When he appeared in Grand Court, Peart admitted wounding Tyrell Smith with intent outside Margaritaville in George Town this summer. He was remanded in custody until sentencing […]
Teenagers arrested over Prospect robbery
(CNS): Four people, three of them teenagers, have been arrested in connection with a robbery that took place on Prospect Point Road during the holiday weekend. They are accused of following their victim from a Crewe Road bar, believed to be Country & Western, in the early morning hours of Monday 21 May. When the man […]
Jury makes quick decision in workplace ‘hammer’ case
(CNS): It took the jury less than one hour Tuesday to find Dain Damean McPherson (33) guilty of GBH following an attack on his supervisor at the supermarket where the men worked. The two men had engaged in an angry verbal altercation at the start of their shift at Foster’s Countryside last September, when McPherson picked up […]
Worker hits boss on head with hammer
(CNS): An altercation between a Foster’s employee and his supervisor has landed the man in court facing charges of GBH after he hit his boss on the head with a hammer. Dain Damean McPherson has pleaded not guilty to one count of wounding with intent in connection with the incident that took place at the supermarket’s […]
