A Devonshire man accused of wounding someone with a knife has been granted bail.

Sherwon Ible, 30, allegedly injured Richard Allen Smith on Saturday with the intention of causing him grievous bodily harm.

Mr Ible, appearing in Magistrates’ Court yesterday, was also charged with having a black-handled knife with a five-inch blade on the same day.

The offence was committed within 100 metres of Queen Elizabeth Park, Hamilton, which is an increased penalty zone.

Mr Ible was not required to enter a plea because the charges are indictable and must be heard in Supreme Court.

Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe set bail at $15,000 with two like sureties and told Mr Ible not to contact Mr Smith.

Mr Wolffe also ordered that the accused report to Police three times a week and adjourned the matter to June 30 for mention.

Meanwhile, a Sandys teenager denied assaulting two visitors and violently resisting arrest in Dockyard on Saturday.

Kethyio Whitehurst allegedly caused grievous bodily harm to Christopher Eu and assaulted Rohan Khanna.

Dockyard is an increased penalty zone, and the offences happened within 100 metres of the Parade of Bands event.

Prosecutor Victoria Greening told the court that the victims had been visiting the Island and would have to fly back to appear at a trial.

Mr Whitehurst elected to be tried in Magistrates’ Court and a trial date was set for August 31.

He was granted $2,500 bail with a like surety.

Also in court, 18-year-old Kwanjah Campbell Burrows, of Sandys, was given a 12-month conditional discharge for uttering offensive words to Police.

The court heard that officers approached him in Dockyard on Saturday after they saw the “agitated” teen surrounded by three women.

When they tried to intervene in the quarrel, Burrows said: “You guys are just uneducated p***ies and you can f*** off”.

Burrows, a student at the New England Institute of Technology, was arrested but continued to rant in the police car while he was being taken to Hamilton Police Station.

In court yesterday, he apologised for his behaviour and said that he had been “very, very intoxicated”.

He added: “I was drunk and very upset. I won’t be drinking like that again, if at all.”

Burrows’s mother told the court that her son, an “excellent” student, had only been back in Bermuda for about a week and that he would be leaving the Island again sooner than expected.

Mr Wolffe noted that a criminal conviction could jeopardise Burrows’s ability to travel to and from school and gave him a 12-month conditional discharge.

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