Barbara Gayle, Staff ReporterTHE STUDENT who stabbed and seriously injured another student during lunch time at Jamaica College in November 2004 has been sent to a juvenile correctional centre.
Miss Justice Ingrid Mangatal in passing sentence yesterday ordered that the boy, who is now 17 years old, remain at the centre until he is 18 years old. He will be 18 on June 28.
PROBATION SUPERVISION
The judge also ordered that he should be supervised for two years by a probation officer.
"It seems we have a culture where we attack other persons with violence", the judge remarked.
She made an urgent plea for something to be done about it.
Attorney-at-law George Clue, who represented the student, told the judge his client was punished because of the incident as he was expelled from Jamaica College.
He asked the judge to bear in mind the probation officer's recommendation.
The student was charged with wounding with intent, but on May 19, a Home Circuit Court jury found him guilty of unlawful wounding.
After the youth was convicted, the judge had ordered a social enquiry report and extended his bail until yesterday.
NO WEAPON
The Crown represented by Crown Counsel Tanya Burke led evidence that a third form student pushed the accused who was a fifth form student at the time 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.
The accused said that the complainant and some other boys came to where he was. He was pushed and he acted in self defence.
He admitted under cross-examination that the complainant did not have any weapon in his hands.
