Leroy Dale Peters was fined $1,000 and ordered to pay about $1,100 in hospital bills and restitution, after he pleaded guilty Friday to two charges of wounding with intent, after allegedly attacking his girlfriend and his male roommate with a machete at their Cane Garden Bay home in 2009.
The two were allegedly having an affair, Justice Indra Hariprashad-Charles said in sentencing Mr. Peters, comparing the case to a “soap opera.”
Both victims were treated at Peebles Hospital after the attack, with the roommate remaining there for two days, prosecutors said when the case appeared in Magistrates’ Court.
Mr. Peters’ lawyer, Colin Foster, who represented his client via videolink from St. Lucia, emphasised that the attack was “not deliberate or premeditated,” saying Mr. Peters was “not that type of man.”
See the Dec. 15, 2011 edition for full coverage.