Serious Assaults

Question 1

Wounding with intent to GBH
Section 188 (1)
14 years

Answer 1

With intent to cause GBH
To Anyone
Wounds
Maims 
Disfigures OR
Causes GBH
To any person

Question 2

Wounding with intent to injure
Section 188 (2)
7 years

Answer 2

With intent to Injure OR
With reckless disregard for the safety of others
Wounds
Maims 
Disfigures OR
Causes GBH
To any person

Question 3

Injuring with intent to cause GBH
Section 189 (1)
10 Years

Answer 3

With intent to cause GBH
To any person
Injuries
Any person

Question 4

Injuring with intent to Injure
Section 189 (2)
5 Years

Answer 4

With intent to Injure OR
With reckless disregard for the safety of others
Injures
Any Person

Question 5

Aggravated Wounding
Section 191 (1)(a)
14 Years

Answer 5

With intent to
(a) commit or facilitate the commission of any imprisonable offence OR
(b) To avoid the detection of himself or any other person in the commission of any imprisonable offence OR
(c) To avoid the arrest or facilitate the flight of himself or any other person upon the commission or attempted commission of any imprisonable offence
Wounds
Maims
Disfigures
Causes GBH
OR Stupefies
OR Render unconscious
OR By any violent means renders incapable of resistance
Any person

Question 6

Aggravated Injuring
Section 191 (2)
7 Years

Answer 6

With intent to
(a) commit or facilitate the commission of any imprisonable offence OR
(b) To avoid the detection of himself or any other person in the commission of any imprisonable offence OR
(c) To avoid the arrest or facilitate the flight of himself or any other person upon the commission or attempted commission of any imprisonable offence
Injures
Any person

Question 7

Aggravated Assault
Section 193 (1)(a)(b)(c)
3 Years

Answer 7

With intent to
(a) commit or facilitate the commission of any imprisonable offence OR
(b) To avoid the detection of himself or any other person in the commission of any imprisonable offence OR
(c) To avoid the arrest or facilitate the flight of himself or any other person upon the commission or attempted commission of any imprisonable offence
Assaults
Any person

Question 8

Definitions of Wounds, Maims, Disfigures, GBH, Stupefies are…

Answer 8

Wounds - The breaking in the continuity of the skin with the flow of blood and can be internal or external.

Maims - Mutilating, crippling, disabling a part of the body so the victim is deprived of the use of a limb or one of the senses.

Disfigures - To deform or deface, to mar or alter the figure or appearance of a person (does not have to be permanent).

GBH - Really serious harm

Stupefies - To cause an effect on the mind or nervous system of a person, which really seriously interferes with that person’s mental or physical ability to act in any way which might hinder an intended crime.