Another Durban Day stabbing trial

Details of another stabbing incident at the Durban Day concert have emerged.

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Durban - Details of another stabbing incident at the Durban Day concert have emerged.

The incident has been reported to the police and a 17-year-old from the Bluff appeared in court this week.

The teenager was arrested on Monday and appeared in the Durban Magistrate’s Court later that day.

He was released into his mother’s custody and will appear in court next month.

Newlands East resident Montreal King, 19, was fatally stabbed at the Durban Day concert at People’s Park earlier this month.

Tristan Augustus, 18, and Radley Warner, 19, are out on R300 bail each, facing charges of murder and attempted murder. During their bail application, the court heard from investigating officer, Constable Nasreen Govender, that witnesses said there had been a fight between two groups at the concert.

King had reportedly been walking away from the argument when Augustus pulled out a knife and allegedly stabbed him in the chest.

Govender had testified that Warner and Augustus then allegedly chased after King when he fell and Warner was seen kicking him in the head.

 

In the latest incident before the courts, the 17-year-old’s attorney, Christopher Yellayah, said there was apparently an ongoing feud between two groups that allegedly resulted in many other fights that day that were not reported to the police.

“Our client says he was chased down by this group and went to report the matter to the police and was told they did not have any complaints in the matter and he should go. It was only when the complainant went to the police that he (the Bluff teen) was arrested.”

The complainant, also a minor, was stabbed in the neck and recently discharged from hospital, with 10 sutures.

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