Darrington Lauriano pleads guilty to wounding

We reported this past Monday that twenty-two year old Darrington Lauriano was acquitted of a charge of murder but Lauriano was back in Court today for the crime of wounding. The accused took a guilty plea and was fined five hundred dollars by Magistrate Albert Hoare and was given until June twentieth to pay up. If he defaults on payment he will serve five months. The facts of the case are that on March thirtieth, thirty-one year old Orlando Wade, remanded on a charge of murder, was alone in Cell Number One at Hattieville’s Super Max Section. At eleven thirty in the morning Lauriano, also remanded on a charge of murder, was brought in the cell. Wade testified in Court that after he and Lauriano spoke, he went to the shower to wash a pair of slippers and heard a metal steel object fall to the ground. When he turned around he saw Lauriano with a pointed object, three to four inches long in his hand. He said Lauriano tried to stab him in his neck but when he put up his left arm to protect himself, he was stabbed three times near his elbow. He called out for help to the prison officers but by the time they arrived he was stabbed three more times in the left side of his chest. Wade also alleged that the assault by Lauriano was a “hit” that was put out on him. Wade and members of his family made this known to the Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie. As a result, McKenzie has ordered that Wade be brought to court alone on his next adjourned date to ensure his protection.