A woman has admitted cursing at officers who were investigating the fatal stabbing of Verneil Richardson.

Shakeda Outerbridge, 25, from Hamilton Parish, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court, yesterday, to a charge of using offensive words in the Bailey’s Bay Cricket Club parking lot.

However prosecutors offered no evidence against Outerbridge in relation to a charge of using threatening words in the early morning incident.

The court heard that at around 1.30am, officers responded to a report of a stabbing at the cricket club. When they arrive on scene, they discovered Mr Richardson with multiple stab wounds. He was rushed to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, but died from his injuries.

Adam Leroy King later pleaded guilty to the killing, and was subsequently jailed for six years for manslaughter.

In the aftermath of the stabbing, police cordoned off a section of the club’s parking lot to begin their investigation, angering a crowd of patrons who reportedly began to hurl abuse at the officers.

Prosecutors said that Outerbridge was among those insulting the officers, and was heard shouting: “F**k you police. You police are a**holes.”

Two others have been accused of being involved in the altercation. Kione Minors pleaded guilty last July to obstructing police and violently resisting arrest, while Tiffany Glasford remains on trial charged with assaulting an officer, violently resisting arrest and obstructing police.

Defense lawyer Dantae Williams told the court that Outerbridge made the offending statement after seeing an assault against Ms Glasford and feeling the effects of the Captor spray deployed by police at the scene.

“She was upset and said some things she shouldn’t have said, things that were out of character,” he said.

Noting Outerbridge’s clean record, the lawyer called on the court to consider a conditional discharge so she could demonstrate that the incident was out of character.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner told the court he was hesitant to separate the matters of Outerbridge and Ms Glasford, ordering that Outerbridge return to court next month when the trial of Ms Glasford is set to continue.