Latest update April 1st, 2025 5:37 PM
Pork-knocker hospitalized after chopping incident
A fifty-three-year-old pork-knocker has been hospitalized with severe chop wounds to the head and face after he was ambushed and attacked by a colleague with whom he was previously involved in an altercation.
Speaking from his bed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), Ivan Jones, of Plum Park, Sophia, related that on Thursday, at around 21:00 hrs, he was en route to Debbie’s Shop at Honey Camp Landing, Mazaruni, when he was assaulted by a man he identified as ‘Rattie’.
He said the two of them were involved in a heated argument, a few days before, over $3000 he had borrowed from his attacker and had failed to repay on time due to a temporary financial crisis.
He said that when he had tried to explain to his assailant that he would repay the cash at a later date, the man refused to listen and had stalked off in anger. He said that as he was about to pass a clump of bushes on the night of the incident, the man jumped out and began chopping him about the body in rage.
Jones says that, while most times the cutlass blade slid off his body (since it landed sideways), one chop ripped open his flesh from above the left eye to the lower left cheek bone. Another sliced a huge gash across his scalp, revealing the bone.
The injured Ivan Jones at the GPHC.
Jones was rushed to the Bartica Hospital, where he was treated but referred to the GPHC due to the extent of his injuries. He arrived at the city hospital on Friday evening.
The injured man related that the chop wound is affecting his sight in the left eye.
The matter has been reported to the Bartica Police Station, but Jones’s attacker has reportedly gone into hiding.
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