It was only because of Jhakira Matthews’ intervention that he is alive today, said Jurdie Omar Austin Miller.
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“We get weself in trouble but I got to be thankful to her,” he said.
Miller was giving his defence when his trial, and that of Jhakira Patrice Akilah Matthews, continued in the No. 5 Supreme Court yesterday.
Miller, of Six Men’s, St Peter, and Matthews, of 1st Avenue, Scotts Gap, St Michael, are accused of causing serious bodily harm to Glen Wilson with intent on May 31, 2021, and the lesser, alternate court of unlawfully and maliciously inflicting serious bodily harm on Wilson on the same date.
Opting to remain in the dock for an unsworn statement, Miller recalled he was by the Juice Spot Bar, in the Princess Alice Terminal, when he saw Matthews.
He bought her a drink and they started to “reason”. She left and he and the owner of the bar fell into a conversation.
The accused said he realised, some 15 minutes later, that Matthews had not returned and, when he looked under a tarpaulin, he saw her and the complainant in an argument.
He said he noticed the argument had escalated and he walked over to them.
“I approached [Wilson] and asked he what going on and he, Glen, was being aggressive at the time,” Miller told the court.
“Both of them were arguing and I was trying to de-escalate the situation. Glen tell me, ‘Move from ’round me, I don’t like you’ and from then he went into his haversack and tek out an object wrapped in cloth.
“The only thing going through my mind is this man want to stab me, want to take my life,” Miller said.
He added that they started to scuffle and the complainant started stabbing at him.
Miller said they were holding each other’s locks and he remembered “getting up on one knee”, holding his hand and trying to remove his hair from the complainant’s hand.
“After that, I remember blood on the ground. I ask ‘J’ if I get stab. I was in so much shock that even after she say no, I wasn’t stabbed, I was still thinking I get stabbed,” he said.
“To my knowledge, if Jhakira didn’t do what she did, I would be the one that would be dead. I would be the one that get stab. We get weself in trouble but I got to be thankful to her.” (HLE)