Two men from Douglaston, St. John's are facing charges of grievous harm arising from two separate chopping incidents on August 11.

In the first incident, Desmond Knights, a self-employed man receiving multiple chop wounds on his back and on both hands after being attacked by Wayne Charles also known as Rampel.

Information reaching GRENADA TODAY indicate that Knights was at the time washing down a vehicle when he received the first chop on his back from a cutlass-wielding Charles who is employed as a security officer at the Gouyave Branch of Capital Bank.

It is alleged that Charles continued his attack on Knights which resulted in the wounded man receiving multiple chop wounds on both hands. The left hand was chopped at the area of the wrist, and the right hand from the elbow downwards. Knights was taken to the Gouyave Police Station and then to the General Hospital in St. George's where he was admitted as a patient for 11 days. At present both of Knights' hands are in Plaster of Paris. He also received 17 stitches to the cut on his back.

It is believed that the attack on Knights stemmed from an earlier exchange of words he had with a young woman whom he did not know. An eyewitness told GRENADA TODAY that after being dropped off from a bus in the Douglaston, Knights offered to assist the woman in crossing the river which was flowing heavy that day.

The woman refused the offer and after crossing the river made a remark to Knights who claimed that he did not hear what she said. However, it is alleged that Knights answered the woman by telling her the next time she pass and fail to say afternoon to "the fellahs on the blocks" the river will go with her.

Later that same day Charles also suffered a chop wound, from the use of a cutlass, at the hands of one of Knights' friends, Sean Frederick. It is alleged that Frederick, a construction worker, retaliated by attacking Charles at his home in Douglaston, St. John's.

GRENADA TODAY learnt that the attack on Charles resulted in him scampering from his house for security. "It was cutlass, cutlass. The first guy got three chops and Wayne got one chop. He (Wayne) had to fly from his house," a source said.

Both men made their first court appearance at the Gouyave Magistrate's Court on September 14 before Magistrate Tamara Gill-Ferguson, the wife of President of the Grenada Bar Association, Ruggles Ferguson.

The two men are due back in court on October 1.