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Machete Attack Leaves Gay Man Permanently Disfigured
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(Hamilton) A Bermuda judge has sentenced to seven years in prison a man who slashed and hacked the face of a gay man with a machete and prompted the judge to rebuke the island government for not passing LGBT civil rights legislation.
The jury took three hours to find Rashad Cooper guilty of the 2007 attack on Shawn Nusum, 25.
During Cooper's trial the court heard that he had a history of tormenting Nusum with homophobic epithets.
Last November 15 the taunting turned to violence at a Hamilton club. As Nusum left the building he was attacked by Cooper who was armed with a machete.
Nusum suffered a broken nose, fractured jaw and cheekbone and multiple deep cuts. The attack left him with permanent scars and he is unable to move one eyebrow that droops over the eye.
"By its sentence the court should, I think, send a strong message to the accused and other like-minded individuals that behavior such as his, motivated such as his, shall not be tolerated in this modern, civilized, enlightened and fair-minded society," Judge Carlisle Greaves said in passing sentence, the Royal Gazette newspaper reported.
Judge Greaves did not stop there. He used the sentencing to suggest the government stop dragging its feet on civil rights legislation for gays and for a hate crimes law.
"It is a human right of every citizen that he ought not to be discriminated against on the basis of race, his origin and such. This court can see very little difference between such rights and the rights and expectations not to be violently attacked on the basis of one's sexual orientation," he said in his ruling, the paper reported.
"In some jurisdictions, such as the United States of America, such offences have come to be known as hate crimes and they attract penalties much above that attracted by the normal offence," Greaves ruling said.
"No such legislation has yet been introduced in this jurisdiction, nor has the defendant been so charged, but the court should take into account the basis for the attack on the part of the defendant. And the court does indeed find that basis to be an aggravating factor."
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