Mechanic jailed for chopping colleague who owed him money

Sep 14, 2019 News

A 27-year-old mechanic will have to serve 18 months in jail for wounding a colleague who owed him money for his labour.
The sentence was handed down on Seon Bobb, of Norton Street, Lodge, Georgetown, when he appeared before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
The charge stated that on September 9, 2019, at High Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, he unlawfully and maliciously wounded Anthony Allen, who is also a mechanic.
A bruised and bandaged Allen was in court when the sentence was handed down.
Police prosecutor Christopher Morris told the court that the two men had worked together for two years at the same mechanic shop on High Street.
But according to Bobb, they fell out because Allen owed him money.
“Me and Anthony work several times before and he never give me my money… that man don’t pay when you work with him.”
Bobb said that when the incident took place, they were working on a minibus. He claimed Allen promised that he would give him all the money that was owed when they were finished working on the bus.
When the work was completed, Allen refused to pay Bobb for his labour.
Bobb left the mechanic shop and returned with a cutlass and chopped Allen to the left shoulder. Allen then ran around the bus to escape, with Bobb in pursuit.
He was rescued by passersby and rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
The defendant was arrested and admitted to committing the offence.

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