Christopher Thomas, STAR Writer
WESTERN BUREAU:
Two St James brothers, who reportedly injured another man during a confrontation in 2013, pleaded guilty when they appeared before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court recently.
David and Davian Thorpe pleaded guilty to the charges of unlawful wounding and assault occasioning bodily harm. It is alleged that they attacked the male complainant with a piece of steel and a building block on August 17, 2013, and inflicted wounds to his head and arm.
Davian Thorpe is also charged on a separate count of assault in which he reportedly attacked the same complainant sometime later, on August 27, 2013. He pleaded not guilty to that offence.
The complainant told Resident Magistrate Natalie Hart-Hines that while the injury to his arm had improved somewhat, he still needed to do a CT scan to assess the severity of the injury he sustained to his head.
Hart-Hines subsequently set the case against the Thorpe brothers for sentencing on May 12 and extended their bails to that date. Their criminal records and social enquiry reports were also requested to aid in sentencing.
In the case where Davian Thorpe is charged alone, Hart-Hines set that matter for trial on June 16.
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