A man will be sentenced next year after he admitted wielding a knife and other offences during an incident where a teenager was stabbed.

Tayo Smith, 21, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court to possession of a bladed article in a public place, the use of threatening words and resisting arrest.

He and his co-defendant, Zywonde Lema, 20, from Warwick, had originally been charged with unlawful wounding of the teenager with intent to do grievous bodily harm and possession of a blade alongside Smith’s other charges.

But Yanique Gardener-Brown, for the Crown, submitted a nolle prosequi, or a request for an indefinite adjournment, on November 22 when the two were set to stand trial.

The pair were arrested on February 24 last year following an incident alleged to have happened at Hamilton bus terminal.

Acting Puisne Judge Mark Pettingill granted the nolle prosequi and discharged the two men of these offences.

Adjournments through a nolle prosequi can be upheld for up to a year before a case is dismissed.

Smith, from Smith’s, will reappear in January to set a date for sentencing.

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