Security guard Jermaine McRae was yesterday sentenced to 60 months imprisonment after he was found to be guilty of stabbing another man.
On November 3rd of last year, McRae, 28, was charged with unlawfully and maliciously wounding Troy Carrington with the intention to maim, disfigure and cause grievous bodily harm. The father of three appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman, who declared that given the testimony offered by Carrington and a witness, the court was satisfied to the extent that it believed that McCrae was guilty of the crime.
McRae who reportedly confessed to the crime when he was apprehended, later claimed that he only “juked” Carrington because he was acting in self-defence. This notion was rejected by Latchman, who asserted that if McRae was indeed speaking the truth, he would have exposed this immediately and not wait until three days after the fact.
Latchman added that the court believed Carrington when he stated that he did not attack McRae, and that he was not armed. Carrington in his testimony earlier this year, related to the court that during the altercation, McCrae produced a knife from his pocket and “juked” him. He recounted that he remembered feeling the pain and seeing the blood spraying from the wound.
Latchman declared that given the nature of the crime, the fact that the defendant was unarmed, the fact that the medical certificate stated that the injury was life threatening as well as the fact that the sentence should serve as a deterrence for McCrae and others, he was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment.
After this was declared, McRae asked the magistrate for an appeal as well as a lawyer. His requests were noted in the court file.
