Sascha Wil­son

Hours af­ter be­ing held with a knife dur­ing J'ou­vert cel­e­bra­tions in San Fer­nan­do, a rev­eller ap­peared in court and was jailed for two months.Nine­teen-year-old Ju­nior Noel told Se­nior Mag­is­trate Lu­ci­na Car­de­nas-Ra­goo­nanan in the San Fer­nan­do First Court that he had the knife for pro­tec­tion.It was around 5.45 am that Noel was held by a mas­quer­ad­er from a band at the cor­ner of Cof­fee Street and Carib Street who hand­ed him over to WPC Moore.

The of­fi­cer searched Noel and found the eight-inch knife on him. He was ar­rest­ed and charged with hav­ing a weapon in his pos­ses­sion, name­ly a knife, with in­tent to com­mit an in­dictable of­fence.

Noel told the mag­is­trate he had the knife in the event that he was at­tacked. In that case, the mag­is­trate said it was a good thing that he was not at­tacked.Po­lice pros­e­cu­tor Cley­on Seedan said the teenag­er had no pre­vi­ous con­vic­tions or pend­ing mat­ters. He was sen­tenced to two months hard labour.