Man on bail accused of stabbing complainant

A warrant was ordered for a defendant, who is currently facing charges of malicious destruction, after the court heard that he stabbed the complainant causing her to be hospitalised.

The complainant in the case against John Moulton told the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court last Thursday that he came to her home in November and stabbed her several times. She said that her lungs were punctured in the process. She further told the court that she spent a week in hospital due to the injuries.

On his last court appearance, Moulton did not enter a plea to charges of malicious destruction of property and issuing threats.

Reports are that on June 22, about 8 a.m., the complainant was at her home when Moulton arrived. She refused to let him in and he began throwing stones, breaking 12 of her windows. He broke into the house, turned on the stove and broke the face basin, toilet, stove, television, and chest of drawers. He also cut items of clothing. Damage is valued at $300,000. It is alleged that Moulton threatened to set the complainant's home on fire.

When Senior Parish Judge Lori-Ann Cole-Montague heard the complainant's reports last Thursday, she said that she wanted a special team to be assigned to the courts to execute warrants for arrests.

"Because when you hear these kinds of things happening and warrants have to be signed, then it has to go to the registry and then it go put down somewhere else. Hear what happen now. While the courts dealing with it, the man a brutalise her same time. I say it all the time, courts have to be strong and police have to strong because people will push over the powers that we have," the judge said. She advised the prosecutor to make a note of the complainant's report on the file.