P.E.I. teen pleads guilty to Bluefield High School machete attack
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CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — A P.E.I. teenage boy who struck one other teenage boy with a machete throughout a combat at Bluefield Excessive Faculty has pleaded responsible to aggravated assault and possession of a weapon for a harmful function.
The teenager appeared in provincial youth courtroom in Charlottetown on Jan. 16 and pleaded responsible to the fees. A publication ban underneath the Youth Prison Justice Act is in place stopping the discharge of knowledge that might determine the offender and the sufferer.
With the responsible pleas in place, Crown legal professional Lisa Goulden advised the courtroom that on Oct. 27 in Hampshire, the offender, then 17 years previous, and the sufferer, then 16, had been in separate automobiles with different teenage boys within the college’s parking zone. The offender and the sufferer received into an argument after which exited their automobiles and began to combat.
A witness within the sufferer’s automobile advised police that the sufferer made racist feedback to the opposite boy and challenged him to the combat, mentioned Goulden. The offender was struck a number of occasions by the sufferer and was shedding the combat. The offender then went again to the automobile, received the machete and struck the sufferer. The machete strike broke the sufferer’s elbow. He additionally required 11 stitches to shut a minimize on his elbow in addition to six stitches on every index finger. The sufferer later required surgical procedure for the damaged elbow.
The sufferer advised police that he mentioned “what’s up” to the offender within the different automobile, who responded by giving him the center finger. The sufferer responded with profanity after which challenged him to a combat, mentioned Goulden.
Authorized-aid lawyer Trish Cheverie mentioned her consumer wasn’t a pupil on the college on the time of the offence. Cheverie added that the accused unsuccessfully tried to de-escalate the incident previous to the combat.
The P.E.I. RCMP beforehand launched data indicating that the sufferer sustained stab wounds throughout the incident. Nonetheless, the information learn in courtroom on Jan. 16 didn’t reference stab wounds or {that a} stabbing was a part of the offence.
Choose Nancy Orr adjourned sentencing to Feb. 22 to permit for the preparation of a pre-sentence report. A pre-sentence report offers data on an offender’s background and private circumstances to help the courtroom with sentencing.
Terrence McEachern is a justice reporter with the SaltWire Community in Prince Edward Island. He could be reached by e-mail at [email protected] and could be adopted on Twitter @terry_mcn.
