St Vincent: Social media personality jailed
A city magistrate has jailed a local social media personality, Roland “Maxi Priest” Mc Donald, to nearly three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to maliciously wounding a labourer last month.
Magistrate John Ballah sentenced Mc Donald to two years and nine months at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court on Monday for unlawfully and maliciously wounding 35-year-old Alex Richards at a bar on August 30.
The court heard that there was another customer with whom Mc Donald was interfering, and Richards asked him to behave himself. Mc Donald desisted for a while but later continued to harass the customer.
Richards approached Mc Donald again about his behaviour, and both men got into an altercation. Mc Donald stabbed Richards multiple times about his body.
Richards was taken to the Levi Latham Health Centre in Mesopotamia for medical attention and was later transferred to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital.
In mitigation, Mc Donald told the court that he was drunk and could not recall what happened.
He said he was drunk before leaving home and did not know about the incident until someone told him about it the following day.
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