A seven-year imprisonment term has been imposed last Friday for the man who attacked another man with a knife last year.
Guadalcanal man, Rex Teghakrakamana was sentenced after his conviction of one count of grievous harm charge.
He pleaded guilty to the charge in the Honiara Magistrates’ Court last year after the charge was reduced from attempted murder.
Due to serious nature of the case police prosecution made an application under section 208 (1) (2) of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) to have the matter transferred for sentencing in the High Court.
The defence counsel during the sentencing submissions also said the magnitudes of the injuries in this case were more serious than any other grievous harm case ever coming before the courts in Solomon Islands, so the case should have to be decided on its own merits.
Justice Francis Mwanesalua having gone through the submissions from the prosecution and the defence counsels that were orally presented in court on Tuesday delivered the sentence on Friday.
The twenty-one year-old Rex cut a man with a knife on the early hours of 22 May, 2014 at Tenamoko village in Guadalcanal.
On the evening of the previous day, while the victim was drinking beers, the accused and two other men approached the victim and asked him for beers.
The victim refused at first but then gave the accused a beer and a cigarette when the accused threatened him.
Later that night, the victim bought some more beers when the accused came to him again and this time cut him with a 24 inch bush knife.
The accused escaped after cutting the victim.
The victim sustained a deep cut on his shoulder, another open cut on his chest which revealed his lung, three of his rib bones were also cut and another cut was on his neck as a result of the attack launched by the accused.
He fell onto the ground unconscious and was assisted by some men to the Good Samaritan Hospital at Guadalcanal before rushed to the National Referral hospital.
Public Solicitor Douglas Hou represented the accused while Public Prosecutor Willy Vaiyu represented the Stated.
By ASSUMPTA BUCHANAN