A 28-year-old Diego Mar­tin man has been re­mand­ed in cus­tody af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with wound­ing with in­tent, for an al­leged at­tack on a woman and her friend at her Chow Quan Av­enue apart­ment last Sun­day.

Lance Greaves of Up­per Rich­plain, Diego Mar­tin, ap­peared in the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trate’s Court Tues­day to an­swer the charges as­so­ci­at­ed with the al­leged at­tack on Guardian Me­dia em­ploy­ee, Asasha Delzin, 28, and her 28-year-old friend who is al­so an em­ploy­ee of Guardian Me­dia.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, around 12.25 pm in Sun­day, Delzin was at her apart­ment in the com­pa­ny of her friend when Greaves, with whom Delzin shared a pre­vi­ous re­la­tion­ship, broke in and at­tacked her with a ham­mer.

Re­ports in­di­cate that Delzin was hit an ini­tial blow to her head be­fore Greaves turned on her friend with the ham­mer as well.

Po­lice were told that Greaves re­peat­ed­ly struck Delzin and her friend with the ham­mer dur­ing the melee.

Po­lice heard that in the chaos that fol­lowed, the man stabbed Delzin with a knife, hit her re­peat­ed­ly with an in­dus­tri­al vac­u­um and with a car-jack.

With the al­leged in­ci­dent spilling out in­to the yard, neigh­bours even­tu­al­ly man­aged to pull Delzin in­to an­oth­er apart­ment. Her friend was al­so helped by neigh­bours as he too was locked in one of the apart­ments on the com­pound.

Po­lice say that when they ar­rived, Greaves was locked in the bath­room of Delzin’s apart­ment and when they broke down the door, Greaves al­leged­ly rushed at them. He was shot in his hand and suf­fered a non-fa­tal wound.

Delzin and her friend were tak­en to the St James Med­ical Fa­cil­i­ty and lat­er trans­ferred to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. Greaves was al­so tak­en for treat­ment at hos­pi­tal.

Delzin suf­fered mul­ti­ple stab wounds, a frac­tured nose and lac­er­a­tions, and was be­ing ob­served for neu­ro­log­i­cal dam­age.

Her friend suf­fered a frac­tured skull and tem­po­rary loss of speech.

Greaves ap­peared be­fore a Port-of-Spain mag­is­trate on Tues­day charged with two counts of wound­ing with in­tent, pos­ses­sion of an of­fen­sive weapon, breach of a pro­tec­tion or­der, break­ing and en­ter­ing and com­mon as­sault.

Po­lice say it is pos­si­ble that charges of at­tempt­ed mur­der can al­so be laid against him, based on the court’s dis­cre­tion.

The mag­is­trate re­fused a re­quest by Greaves’ at­tor­ney for him to be sent to the St Ann’s Psy­chi­atric Hos­pi­tal and was re­mand­ed at the Port-of-Spain prison.

He will ap­pear in court again on De­cem­ber 17.

PCs Charles, St John, Jo­bity and Shep­herd re­spond­ed to the calls and are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.