Jury retires in trial of teenager accused of stabbing then-17-year-old in neck
A jury has retired to deliberate in the trial of a teenager accused of stabbing a then-17-year-old in the neck in Walsall.
Prosecutors allege Maariya Arif, aged 19, had deliberately tried to wound the victim after they saw each other in Walsall on August 3 last year.
Arif, of Friary Close in Walsall, who denies charges of wounding and possession of a knife, encountered the teenager outside the Co-op on Bridge Street, jurors heard.
The two women were in a brawl at 4.15pm and a knife was pulled which led to the 17-year-old, now 18, suffering a deep wound in the back of her neck, a court was told. She was treated at Walsall Manor Hospital for her injuries along with superficial wounds to her head and her finger, jurors heard.
The jury retired on Monday afternoon.
