Family fined for harming woman

The High Court has imposed a $15 000 fine on a mother and her two daughters who were convicted of injuring another woman over eight years ago.

Justice Randall Worrell has ordered Octavia Nurse and her daughters Tamisha and Nikita Gooding, all from Four Roads, St Philip pay the sum by July 29.

However, $9 000 of the total sum must be paid by April 22 and the remaining $6 000 in three months.

The trio have also been put on notice that they may be called upon to pay costs to the court.

Following a trial in June last year the three were convicted by a nine-member jury of unlawfully causing serious bodily harm to Channa Weekes with intent to maim, disfigure or disable her or to do some serious bodily harm to her on June 20, 2013.

The three were represented by defense attorney Kendrid Sargeant while Senior Crown Counsel Olivia Davis prosecuted the matter.

During the trial, Weekes said she did not know the reason for the attack. She recalled that she was standing with a male that night near De Juice Spot in her community, when Tamisha began quarrelling with them.

Weekes said she “flung” off her hand and told the woman to get out her face but she never hit her.

Sometime later, Weekes went to a car and saw Octavia and Nikita and the situation escalated.

“Nikita came up and give me the first stab. Nikita struck me here,” she said as she pointed to the left side of her forehead.

“Octavia started hitting me and I was trying to get her off of me . . . Nikita was hitting me with an object,” Weekes told the court.