Couple sent to prison for stabbing a neighbor
Prison: Kenese Bobb and Kemo Harlequin
Kaieteur News – A couple from Georgetown’s Lot 15 D’Urban Backlands, were each sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for stabbing their neighbor.
The defendants, Kemo Harlequin, 30, a fish cleaner, and Kenese Bobb, 26, a salesman, were heard at Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
On their first court appearance on Dec. 14, 2019, the couple was not required to plead to the indictable charge. It was alleged that on December 10, 2019, in D’Urban Backlands Georgetown, the couple unlawfully and maliciously injured Jermaine Sampson with intent to main, disfigure, disable or cause grievous bodily harm to the victim.
During her ruling on Wednesday, the Magistrate ruled that the prosecution had produced sufficient evidence against the couple for the offense charged and, as a result, they were both sentenced to serve three years behind bars.
Kaieteur News had reported that the defendants and the victim were known to each other as they lived in the same area, gaining access to their respective homes through the same yard.
On the day in question, Harlequin had a misunderstanding with Sampson. Bobb intervened thereafter. The couple later went to the victim’s home and started pelting it with glass bottles.
This pulled Sampson out of his home in an attempt to talk to them. However, Bobb and Harlequin caught up to the victim and pulled him down his step. The couple who was armed with kitchen knives was then alleged to have inflicted several stab wounds on him.
Bobb had claimed that she was just a pacifist in this matter, just trying to split the fight between the men. She added that she even received a puncture wound to her hand during the incident.