of his former friend with a "cut-throat'' razor during a bar fight.

"You are not a barber. What are you doing with a barber's razor going to a club at night?'' Magistrate Ed King asked Mattocks.

"The use of weapons must be deterred and I cannot treat the severe wounding of Mr. Brown lightly,'' Mr. King added when handing down the sentence imposing the maximum penalty for unlawful wounding.

Mattocks, 29, was also found guilty on charges of possession of an offensive weapon and violently resisting arrest. He pleaded guilty to a fourth charge of escaping from Police custody. Mr. King sentenced him to concurrent sentences of three months, two months and three months respectively for those charges.

Mr. King rejected most of Mattocks' version of the attack which the court heard yesterday morning.

Slash victim Lincoln George Brown and arresting officer P.c. Roger John Edward Saints testified on Tuesday that Mattocks had a six-inch, folding barber's razor -- which Mr. King pointed out is referred to colloquially as a "cut-throat razor''.

But on the night of the attack, Mattocks claimed that he had cut Mr. Brown with a broken beer bottle.

Drawing Mattocks' attention to a Police photograph of Brown taken after the slashing, Mr. King said: "A broken bottle could not cause a single laceration such as that. The photo clearly indicates that the neck is cut from below the ear to near his Adam's apple.'' He added: "You heard me say that yesterday...the claim of the bottle is without avail because if you break a bottle, you have wilfully adapted it to make it an offensive weapon. It would still be an offensive weapon -- bottle or razor, you can't get out of it.'' Brown received 20 stitches to his neck to close the slash which was 12 centimetres in length and two centimetres deep in places according to the medical report.

Mattocks attacked Lincoln Brown shortly after midnight on October 20 at the Anchorage Bar in Devonshire.

The court heard on Tuesday that the slashing occurred after Mr. Brown refused a beer from Mattocks and then overheard him say Brown had "dissed him''. When Mr. Brown confronted Mattocks to ask why he said that, Mattocks pulled out the razor and slashed his neck.

When police officers apprehended Mattocks in Pembroke, his violent attempts to evade arrest resulted in a dislocated shoulder for P.c. Saints.

He later escaped from police custody on October 23, 2000 -- the only charge to which he pleaded guilty.

Mattocks, a Jamaican national married to a Bermudian, appeared without representation and often appeared frustrated and angry with trial proceedings.

Prior to sentencing he asked Mr. King to "just fine him'' adding: "If I go to prison, I'll have a nervous breakdown.''