A jockey is now out on $600,000 bail after denying an attempted murder charge stemming from a stabbing at the after-party of a horse racing meet on Sunday.
Winston Appadu, of New Market Street, Rose Hall, was arraigned before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh at the Whim Magistrate’s Court, where he was remanded to prison after the court was told that the victim, Yuhvendra Jeetnarine, 22, of Bush Lot Village, Corentyne, was still critical.
However, Appadu was granted bail yesterday by Magistrate Charlyn Artiga after Police Sergeant Althea Solomon reported to the court that the victim is currently in stable condition and recuperating at the New Amsterdam Hospital. Solomon did not object to bail.
Magistrate Artiga granted bail with the condition that Appadu report to the Whim Police Station every day at 3PM. He is scheduled to return to court on May 11th.
On Sunday between the hours of 9PM and 10PM, Jeetnarine and Trevor Butcher, 20, of Rose Hall were both at the after-party at the Port Mourant Racing Turf Club when they were injured in a fight.
The fight reportedly had its genesis in an old grievance between Jeetnarine’s father and the father of the other individual. Butcher had said he noticed two men fighting and beverage bottles being thrown in the air and tried to get them to stop and remove from next to him. It was then, he related, that one of the men pulled out his knife and stabbed him. Butcher added that after he was stabbed he staggered to his uncles for help and they rushed him to the hospital. Butcher remains in a stable condition at the hospital.
