Teen in court for stabbing schoolboy

A 19-YEAR-OLD youth arrested for Thursday’s stabbing of a Carapichaima Senior Secondary  student appeared before Chaguanas Magistrate Nanette Forde-John yesterday charged with malicious wounding.

Griffith Mungal, of Chase Village, a former student of the school, was charged with maliciously wounding Anderson John on the school compound last Thursday.  Mungal, who pleaded not guilty, was represented by Victor Hosein. Magistrate Forde-John adjourned the matter to June 23. Mungal had appeared before a Justice of the Peace at the Chaguanas Magistrates’ Court late Thursday and was granted $15,000 bail to be approved by the Clerk of the Peace. Also in court yesterday, dressed in his school uniform was the victim  who was stabbed on the left shoulder and left side of his face.