Lindener given 24-month sentence for unlawful wounding, fined for traffic violations

Forty-four-year-old Desmond Sanchara was on Thursday given a 24-month prison sentence and fined $70,000 by Magistrate Dylon Bess for an unlawful and malicious wounding charge along with four traffic offences.
Police stated that Sanchara, of Lot 7 Section C Christianburg and 1050 New Housing Scheme, Central Amelia’s Ward, Linden, unlawfully and maliciously wounded the Virtual Complainant (VC), Shemar Kennedy, on February 18, 2020, at Second Corner, South Amelia’s Ward.
He pleaded guilty to the charge.

The VC in a statement stated that Sanchara stabbed him to his neck with a knife.
Sanchara also faced four traffic charges including dangerous driving, failure to stop at the directive of a police officer in uniform, failure to stop after an accident and failure to produce driver’s licence for examination by Police in uniform.
The incidents occurred at Casino Drive, Wismar, Linden, on March 11. At the time, he was driving motor car PVV 7348.
The accused pleaded guilty to three of the four charges, while he pleaded not guilty to failure to produce driver’s licence for Police examination.
He was fined $50,000 for the dangerous driving charge, $10,000 for the failure to stop at the directive of a police officer and $10,000 for failure to stop after an accident or an alternative of six months in prison.
Sanchara is scheduled to return to court on March 25 for trial in the matter of failure to produce a driver’s licence for Police examination.