Two charged for maim of Sandhill man

In news from Belize’s courtrooms, today two men appeared in the Magistrates’ Court to answer to charges of Grievous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm against a Sandhill man. The charges against nineteen year old Marlon Taylor and twenty-two year old Clifford Wade follow an incident on Tuesday in which twenty-six year old Leon Leslie’s left arm was almost severed. The victim reported to police that on Tuesday he and his wife were waiting at the bus stop at mile sixteen on the Northern Highway when he saw Wade chasing his brother, Steven Staine. Leslie says he interceded and asked Wade to back off. But minutes later, Wade returned to the area accompanied by Taylor, who is tonight accused of using a machete to chop Leslie. The badly bleeding man was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and during a six hour surgery, doctors used a steel plate to repair Leslie’s arm. The case against the accused men has been adjourned until February twenty-eighth.