Two men charged after Princes Town taxi stand attack

Two men have been charged with wound­ing with in­tent fol­low­ing an al­leged cut­lass at­tack at the San Fer­nan­do Taxi Stand near High Street, Princes Town, on Au­gust 7.

Mes­si­ah Pope, 24, and Sean Rivers, 28, ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Chinebass at the Princes Town High Court on Fri­day. Nei­ther man was called up­on to plead.

Po­lice said the vic­tim was stand­ing at the taxi stand when the two men, who were un­known to him, ap­proached him armed with cut­lass­es and struck him sev­er­al times about the body.