By PAVEL BAILEY

Tribune Staff Reporter

pbailey@tribunemedia.net

A MAN was fined $3,000 and ordered to pay compensation yesterday after admitting to stabbing another man in the stomach, allegedly during a dispute over tools on St George’s Avenue.

Lavon Pratt, 21, appeared before Senior Magistrate Kendra Kelly-Burrows, charged with causing grievous harm.

He also faced additional charges: two counts of threats of death and two counts of assault with a dangerous instrument.

Prosecutors said Pratt stabbed Shawn Minus Rolle in the stomach with a knife on July 13. Mr Rolle was treated in the hospital and recovered from his injuries.

Pratt is also accused of threatening to kill Kendrick Grant and Sonia Greenslade and assaulting them with a cutlass.

The defendant pleaded guilty to the grievous harm charge but denied the remaining allegations. He claimed the stabbing happened after the complainant refused to return his tools and allegedly came at him with a cutlass during the confrontation.

Magistrate Kelly-Burrows noted that Pratt had no prior convictions. He was fined $2,000 for the grievous harm offence and ordered to pay $1,000 in compensation to the victim. He was also placed on probation for one year. Failure to comply will result in a one-year prison sentence.

For the remaining charges, Pratt was granted $3,000 bail. He must report to the Wulff Road Police Station every Friday by 6pm.

The trial for those charges is set to begin on September 24.

Sergeant Vernon Pyfrom served as the prosecutor.