A San Fer­nan­do man has been slapped with six months in prison for bit­ing off a piece of a se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer’s fin­ger dur­ing a scuf­fle last week.

David Seon, 40, plead­ed guilty and apol­o­gised for his ac­tions when he ap­peared yes­ter­day be­fore High Court Mas­ter Deli­cia Bethele­my.

Pros­e­cu­tor Rea­gan Ra­manan told the court that on Sep­tem­ber 23, the se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer was on du­ty at the Unipet Quick Shoppe, at Cross Cross­ing, San Fer­nan­do, when he saw the ac­cused plac­ing items in his pants pock­et.

He ap­proached and chal­lenged Seon, which led to a scuf­fle dur­ing which the ac­cused al­leged­ly bit off the tip of the vic­tim’s pinky fin­ger.

Sgt Seecha­ran was among the of­fi­cers who re­spond­ed and ar­rest­ed Seon.

The vic­tim was tak­en to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, but doc­tors could not reat­tach the sev­ered part of his fin­ger.

Seon was charged by PC Go­sine with in­flict­ing griev­ous bod­i­ly harm.

Seon, who is un­em­ployed, asked the court to im­pose a fine and of­fered to pay the vic­tim com­pen­sa­tion.

He, how­ev­er, had sev­er­al pre­vi­ous con­vic­tions for var­i­ous of­fences, in­clud­ing co­caine pos­ses­sion, pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion and lar­ce­ny. —Sascha Wil­son