Tag: violent crime
Juvenile defendant given chance to prove himself
(CNS): A young offender who pleaded guilty to one count of wounding in a knifing incident on Smith Road earlier this year was set free Friday after spending 5½ months on remand in HMP Northward. Justice Charles Quin handed down a six-month sentence suspended for 12 months, which included several strict conditions the juvenile must […]
Man attacked with hammer at Countryside
(CNS) UPDATED: A 31-year-old George Town man turned himself into the Bodden Town Police Station on Saturday in relation to an incident Friday evening at the Countryside Shopping Village in Savannah, where a man allegedly attacked another man with a hammer. Police say he has now been charged with assault GBH with intent and possession […]
Duo suspects in both Red Bay and GT shootings
(CNS) UPDATED: Police suspect that the two men who robbed the jerk stand on Shamrock Road in Red Bay at gunpoint Saturday night also attacked a man near Linwood St, George Town, about an hour before that. Shots were fired at both incidents. In the first, a man received a blow to the head with a […]
Man stabbed in leg during GT fight
(CNS): Police are investigating another violent altercation after a man said he was assaulted and stabbed in the leg by a man he knew in the early hours of Sunday morning (13 August) at McField Square, George Town. Police had been called to the central area of the capital at about 2am after a report of […]
Man robs school of registration fees
(CNS): Police are on the lookout for a man who made off with cash stolen from a George Town private school on Thursday morning at around 8:30. Officers were called to Truth for Youth, on Walkers Road by the junction of Goring Avenue, around 45 minutes later and learned that a man posing as a […]
Woman charged with stabbing partner
(CNS): A George Town woman was due in court Thursday, facing charges of inflicting GBH and wounding in connection with a stabbing at her home Tuesday. Police say the 35-year-old woman stabbed her partner with a kitchen knife. She was arrested after police answered the 911 call to the couple’s home. The man was reportedly […]
GT man gives himself up after bar-room violence
(CNS): A 46-year-old man from George Town who handed himself into police shortly after a violent incident at a bar on Seymour Drive in the industrial area of the capital in the early hours of Saturday morning was later charged with wounding with intent. In the second violent assault at the bar this month, a […]
GT man admits post office stabbing
(CNS): A 22-year-old man from George Town has admitted stabbing a woman in frenzied attack outside the George Town post office earlier this year. Joseph Williams was charged with wounding with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm when he stabbed his victim in April, and having an offensive weapon. He pleaded guilty to the […]
Teen admits stabbing boy outside fast food restaurant
(CNS): A 15-year-old boy from West Bay pleaded guilty to a serious charge in the Grand Court Friday. The teenager, who cannot be named because of his age, stabbed another 15-year-old boy in the chest outside Burger King on the West Bay Road last month. The boy admitted wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily […]
Witnesses sought to violent attack on woman
(CNS): Police are appealing for witnesses to a violent attack on a woman in a George Town bar, Sunday night. The victim was reportedly approached by a man she did not know, who had a clear complexion and was possibly Hispanic, in Vic’s Bar on Seymour Drive (a.k.a. Dump Road). Police said the man pulled at the woman […]
Jury discharged as gun trial halted
(CNS): A jury was discharged by a Grand Court judge Thursday after an application was made to the courts to adjourn and start a new trial in the crown’s case against two couples charged with gun violence offences. As he dismissed them, Justice Micheal Wood told the jury members that he was unable to explain […]
