27-Year-Old Man Jailed For Stabbing Cousin
27-year-old David Trott was sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing his cousin on April 13th 2011. Trott has previously been charged with assaulting a member of his own family, having been convicted of wounding his uncle in 2006.
At the beginning of his Supreme Court trial, Trott had changed his plea to guilty after which a Social Inquiry Report was ordered and he was scheduled to return for sentencing today [Apr.11].
Before sentencing, Crown Prosecutor reminded Justice Carlyle Greaves of the facts to which Trott had pleaded guilty. Ms Clarke recounted how Trott and his cousin had come back to Trott’s house after Trott’s cousin had finished his Bermuda Regiment training for that night.
Ms Clarke said that Trott and his then pregnant girlfriend had gotten into a dispute and that Trott was striking her. His cousin had intervened and sought to calm the situation. Trott’s response was to leave and go into the house. However Trott returned almost immediately carrying a kitchen knife.
Trott stabbed his cousin twice in the lower body. When his cousin ran off, Trott chased after him and stabbed him again in the back. The resulting injuries caused his cousin to be hospitalized for two weeks. The Crown recommended a sentence between eighteen and thirty-six months.
For Trott, lawyer Marc Daniels offered the defense that Trott was drunk at the time, the action was a result of his intoxication, and Trott had little recollection of the incident. Mr Daniels also offered that Trott was remorseful. Mr Daniels asked that the sentence should be at the lower eighteen months end.
Justice Greaves noted that Trott’s record indicated that Trott had a history of attacking members of his own family, having last appeared in Supreme Court in 2006 on a charge of wounding his uncle. For this offence, Justice Greaves had given Trott a sentence of two year’s probation.
Rejecting the defence lawyer’s submission that Trott was remorseful, Justice Greaves said when facing serious jail time: “He start’s preaching like he’s Paul.” Describing Trott further, Justice Greaves said: “He is a nice guy who erupts.”
Speaking from the dock, Trott said: “I’m sorry. It was the worst day of my life. I’ve got the Lord with me now. I am not a violent man. I don’t recall what happened that night.”
Passing sentence, Justice Greaves said that this was the second time that he had seen this defendant on a similar charge, wounding. He said that he had heard all this before, and that he was “concerned by the propensity to just erupt for no apparent good reason.”
Justice Greaves said that though the appropriate sentence for this offence was five years, he was taking into account the early guilty plea and was handing down a sentence of three years in prison followed by three years on Probation. Time already served will be taken into consideration.
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Ah yes….. the ole “I’ve got the Lord with me now” trick.
Why wasnt he “with you” in 2006 after hurting your own damn uncle?
I’ll tell you why cause you only got probation, so you still acted like an @ss. Now you’re all religious cause you didnt get only probation this time. COWARD!!!!
Too many things on the docket.
Guy should have gotten 10 years.
Can’t remember? I found Jesus?
Bermuda needs another Summary Court and turn those empty buildings into Courts.
Whats the cost of another Magistrate when we have been raped by Government.
Is intoxication a defence in this country?
Nope & it’s a good thing its not because many who do violent acts in Bermuda are drunk at the time & would use it as an excuse. Drugs that some people use like alcohol & cocaine to get them hyped up & give them a false sense of courage do not make the person do what they do. Drugs like these just intensify a personality that already exist so if when sober someone is a minor jacka** when they get drunk or high on coke they become a major jacka**.
This is bullsh!t. 3 years for attempted murder. What type of message they sending?
You people wasn’t there so just shut the h%ll up an mind your damn Business an stop talking the s#t out of your a^s
You must be his baby daddy.
3 years AINT ENOUGH….DONT NEED TO BE THERE BBBBBBBBBBBiiiiiaaaaaaaattccchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
lmfawo!!!! I’m sorry to laugh but ya damn right 3 years isn’t enough.
He’ll have the Lord with him every day and night at Westgate Recreational Facility
The whole click celebrating :p . Stay up Blood!
Real cute ya got jokes
Hey Ki…STFU! Typical how everybody defends the guilty on this island all the time. People are getting TIRED of all this s#t!
Amen!
Three years for this guy and five years for stabbing someone 14 times. Obviously stabbing someone and nearly killing them is considered minor in Bermuda.
Hey Ki, you know he needs to be up there a while to get that help and slow his ss
down. Hope the 3 year probation monitors alcohol/drug usage when he comes out, so he can be a man and not a baby!
The Lord works in mysterious ways!
I would have to disagree with that “everybody defends the guilty” statement. Bermuda is very small and everybody knows everybody or at least knows of the person. When s*t hits home its very hard for families to deal with it because whether guilty or not, the individual is loved by that family because point blank its a bloodline connection.
We are so quick to say throw’m in jail but jail does not solve the issues at hand. Clearly with most of our young men there’s a lot of mental and emotional things going on with them and for some, the issues begin from small. If they are not corrected or taught how to direct their emotions namely anger, they will vent it in whatever way they feel too or know how to. We NEED treatment facilities not jail. Clearly this young man may have personal issues that have never been resolved in his younger life. There is always a root to every situation. No one knows the history of this young man and others for that matter besides their families.
Considering that he is a daddy, my only hope is that he will use this second strike against him as a stepping stone to just get his s*t together. Seek some form of counselling in controlling anger and eliminating alcohol from life because clearly he should not drink. However, at the ending of the day HE has to be the one willing and able to make major sacrifices and changes in his life. No one can force him or do it for him.