Shaun Patrick Howard (63), who suffered life-threatening injuries after being wounded by a knife in October last year, told jurors on the first day of a trial that he still suffered nightmares about the incident.
He added that he would ‘never forgive or never forget’ what he claims Gerard Eamon Maguire, whom he described as ‘like a brother’, did to him on 30 October last year.
Yesterday in court he said that the defendant had ‘scurried’ away from the scene ‘like a rat’ without calling an ambulance – despite having access to three phones. Mr Maguire was arrested at his home in Hampshire Gardens less than an hour after the alleged attack.
‘He left me to die,’ Mr Howard told the court.
Mr Maguire (49) denies attempted murder, as well as grave and criminal assault and perverting the course of justice, following the incident in Mr Howard’s flat in Journaux Court, St Helier, last year.
Full reports in Thursday’s JEP.
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