Vendor remanded for chopping conductor over payment

Oct 17, 2019 News

A CD vendor and part time DJ yesterday admitted to a felonious wounding charged when he appeared in court three months after of committing the offence.
Twenty-five-year-old Shawn Lee was arraigned before Principal Magistrate Faith McGusty in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts to answer to the wounding charge. He pleaded guilty and offered to explain to the court what had happened.
The charge stated that on July 11, 2019, between George and Norton Streets, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, with intent to maim disfigure, disable or cause grievous bodily harm, Lee unlawfully and maliciously wounded Dellon Foster, a father of three.

Remanded: Shawn Lee

Foster proceeded to show the court that a finger on his left hand is unable to move due to the chops he received from Lee.
According to the defendant, he left home the morning and was on his way to the park, when Foster, a bus conductor asked him to download some songs for him. Lee added that after he returned the flash drive to Foster, the man refused to pay.
The court then heard that the two men reached an argument. Lee claimed that Foster chucked him and “I picked up my cutlass and chopped him but he run after getting chopped.”
Principal Magistrate McGusty then asked the defendant why he’s walking around with a cutlass and the defendant responded, “My computer got snatched before so since then I start walk with a cutlass.”
Foster told the court, “I told Lee not to put any song on my flash drive since it is already full and he come to me telling

me that the driver say I must pay he for some song he put on a flash.”
Foster added that after they got into an argument, he heard screaming and when he turned around he saw Lee with a cutlass. “I had to put my hand to save my head…I got three chops including one to my toe.”
After hearing what the two men had to say, Principal Magistrate McGusty stood down the matter until 13:30hrs, to receive a CCTV video footage from the nearby store to show how the incident happened.
However, when the matter was called during the afternoon session, police prosecutor Seon Blackman told the magistrate that since the incident happened in July, the footage was already erased.
Foster then told the court that he is willing to accept $300,000, as compensation since he was already injured. Lee explained that he can’t afford to pay off all of the cash now and that he would need some time to get the money.
Lee was remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate McGusty and the matter was adjourned to October 25, 2019.

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