RAVI Rajkumar, 18, a fruit vendor, of Lot 83 Sandy Babb Street, Kitty, was granted $10,000 bail yesterday on a wounding charge. He appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan but was not required to plea to the offence, particulars of which said, on November 13, at Wellington Street, also in Georgetown, he unlawfully and maliciously wounded Joseph Parris.
Police Corporal Dinero Jones, prosecuting, said, that day around 00:30hrs, the accused was walking along Wellington Street, when the victim accosted him and demanded that he hands over his valuables.
The prosecutor said that Rajkumar took a pair of scissors and dealt the virtual complainant four stab wounds before Parris escaped with his chain in a yard and summoned the police.
Attorney-at-law Mr. Paul Fung-a-Fat, for Rajkumar, said the accused suffered cuts on his hands and body when he was being robbed by Parris and he was merely defending himself.
Parris was not present in Court, but his wife Donna Parris who spoke on his behalf, informed that her husband is sick and the case was adjourned to November 21.