yesterday.

But 32-year-old Shawn Gregory Ming is now a free man -- as he has already spent a year in custody.

Ming, of Bandroom Lane, Pembroke, pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding in May 1998.

He admitted attacking another man with a knife, claiming the man had hit him over the back of the head with a baseball bat.

Passing sentence, Chief Justice Austin Ward said time already spent in custody would have to be taken into consideration.