Two different versions of incident lead to new trial date

Two very different versions of an incident which left a woman with a cut to her throat were put forward in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

The man at the centre of the incident, Dwight Joseph, 50, of a Kingston address, will now have to wait until April 19, for the case to be tried.

Allegations are that some two weeks ago, Joseph approached a woman and made sexual advances at her.

The woman is said to have resisted and was cut on the neck with a bottle which Joseph allegedly had in his possession.

Joseph's lawyer, however, gave a totally different version of the story.

According to him, Joseph and the woman were intimate friends and jealousy was the cause of the fracas.

On the day in question, however, Joseph is said to have received a phone call from another female while in the woman's company.

The lawyer also claimed that it was the woman who had the bottle in her possession and tried to attack Joseph, who held her hand as he tried to stop her from stabbing him.

During the struggle the woman was cut, he claimed.

With both sides of the incident heard, Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey said, "You can say anything but we don't know for sure," before setting the trial date.