Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
A FORMER Jamaica College student who stabbed and wounded another student during lunch time at the school on November 15, 2004, is to be sentenced on June 2.
A Home Circuit Court jury found him guilty yesterday. The student who is now 17 years old was charged with wounding with intent, but the jury found him guilty of the lesser charge of unlawful wounding.
Following an application made by defence lawyer George Clue, Miss Justice Ingrid Mangatal ordered a social enquiry report and extended his bail for him to return to court on June 2 for sentencing.
The Crown, represented by Tanya Burke, Crown Counsel, led evidence that a third form student pushed the accused who was a fifth form student on the day of the incident. The accused pulled a knife and stabbed the third form student in the chest. He was rushed to hospital where he was admitted for one week. A report was made to the police and Detective Sergeant Colville Ebanks arrested and charged the accused.
The accused said in his defence that the complainant and some other boys came to where he was. He was pushed in the region of the shoulder and he acted in self defence. He said when the complainant pushed him, he felt afraid because he did not know what his inten-tions were so he took the knife and "swung once" at the complainant.
He said under cross-examination that he had the knife at school because there was a confrontation between the schools and people could be damaged during the confrontation.
