Read the full judgment text of HCCC 000267/2002 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 24 October 2002.
1. The defendant in this case, a girl who was aged 15 at the time, has been indicted for an offence of attempted murder committed on 11 April 2001. Put shortly for present purposes it is alleged that she stabbed her newborn child very shortly after its birth. The defendant's mother then rushed the child to hospital. Happily the child survived.