Tag: stabbing
Teenager wounded in GT knife attack
(CNS): A teenager was stabbed in his right side on Monday evening as he walked along Smith Road, close to Smith Road Plaza, according to police. They said the victim knew his attacker, who is also a juvenile, but gave no indication that he had been arrested. Officers were called to the hospital after the […]
Police seek WB men after nightclub stabbing
(CNS): The police are looking for two men from West Bay, aged 30 and 21, after a 41-year-old man, also from West Bay, was assaulted at the Jungle Bar & Lounge, West Bay Road, just before 11:00 on Friday night, in what was described by the police as an altercation. The victim received a stab […]
GT man arrested over bar brawl stabbing
(CNS): A 46-year-old man from George Town was arrested Thursday on suspicion of assault GBH following a stabbing outside a bar in the capital on Wednesday. Police were called to the scene of the brawl in the parking lot of the Office Lounge on Shedden Road at around 1:30 Wednesday morning. When they arrived, they learned […]
Violent husband jailed for 14 years
(CNS): An estranged husband who tried to kill his wife in a brutal, terrifying machete attack was handed a fourteen-year jail term last week after pleading guilty to attempted murder. George Vaughan lured his wife to the home they once shared when she believed he wouldn’t be there. But the man lay in wait, and […]
Throat slasher jailed for three years
(CNS): David Andrew Bodden (39) has been jailed for three years for cutting the throat of Blake Burrell with a scalpel in broad daylight on a busy cruise ship day in downtown George Town last summer. Bodden was handed a three-year sentence by Justice Charles Quin Thursday, several months after he was tried and found […]
Judge raises concerns over knife crime
(CNS): A Grand Court judge said that knife crime was “worryingly prevalent” and raised his concerns about people claiming to carry the weapons as protection, as he handed down a sentence of five years and six months to a Jamaican man convicted of stabbing his one-time friend in the heart following a card game dispute. […]
School chef denies charges in car park stabbing
(CNS): A 21-year-old local man who works as a chef at a government primary school denied two charges of assault and wounding on two people when he appeared in Grand Court Friday. Desly Kyshon Missick pleaded not guilty to allegations that he stabbed and assaulted his victims in the car park of Fete nightclub on […]
Card game turns violent, player stabbed in heart
(CNS): Orlando Graham (36), a Jamaican national from George Town, was found guilty on Friday of intentionally wounding a former friend following an argument over a card game that turned violent. Graham was remanded in custody after he was convicted of stabbing Prentice Brown in the heart following a game of Rummy in January, when […]
Inmate stabs fellow prisoner with light tube
(CNS): An inmate at HMP Northward will be serving two additional years for stabbing another prisoner with a broken glass light tube from his cell. Chadwick Dale (25) is already serving a six-year term for robbery and wounding, plus another year that was added in 2014 for escaping from the prison along with Steve and […]
Man dodges serious charge in drunken knife attack
(CNS): Maurice Jackson escaped an attempted murder charge this week after the crown accepted his guilty plea to wounding in connection with a drunken knife attack in North Side earlier this year following a dominoes game. As the crown was unable to prove any intent behind an extremely serious attack, the 23-year-old admitted the lesser […]
Young man critical after stabbing on Seven Mile Beach
(CNS): A 21-year-old man is currently in hospital in critical condition following a stabbing in the parking lot of the Seven Mile Public Beach in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The police learned about the incident, which happened at about 2am on 20 July, after emergency personnel at the hospital called the 911 Communications […]
