By Tashieka Mair, Star Writer

WESTERN BUREAU:

A woman who wounded her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend will be sentenced before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on October 17.

Twenty-year-old Amanda Nesbeth of Mount Carey in St. James pleaded guilty to charges of unlawful wounding.

She was arrested in August after she chopped a woman twice with a machete.

Nesbeth was granted $20,000 bail on her previous court appearance in September but has been unable to take up the offer.

When the case was mentioned on Monday, Nesbeth was granted bail on her own surety in the sum of $10,000 on the condition that she report to the Anchovy Police Station on Fridays.

The allegations are that on August 30, Nesbeth entered the complainant's premises and asked her for a cellular phone. The complainant, however, told Nesbeth that she did not know what she was talking about.

It is said that Nesbeth used a machete to chop the complainant to the face and left hand. She admitted to giving police a false name, and said it was the complainant who "troubled" her first.

Nesbeth explained to RM Winsome Henry that she had gone to the premises, where her ex-boyfriend lives with the complainant, to collect a birth certificate and a cellphone. She said the complainant attacked her with a machete.

Nesbeth told the court that she was able to disarm the complainant and used the machete to "chop her up".