MONTEGO BAY, St James

A man who had stabbed a former co-worker in the back last year causing him to be paralysed from the waist down and confined to a wheel chair was remanded in custody when he appeared in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.

Collin Halstead who had run away from the area after the incident has been charged with assault occasioning grievous bodily harm and will be brought back to court on February 13 when the case will be mentioned.

He was held and charged this week while he was a patient at the Cornwall Regional Hospital.

The allegations are that Halstead and the complainant Edward Stanley had got into an argument over a missing cell phone belonging to the accused man at the Mt Salem gas station where they used to work in February last year.

A knife was brought into play and Stanley was cut on one finger and was then held down by another man while Halstead stabbed him repeatedly in the back.

Stanley was rushed to the Cornwall Regional Hospital where he was found to be paralysed.

Halstead it was heard, then fled to Kingston.

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