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Family members plan to turn suspect in
Ann Simon and one of her sons who sustained burns during last week’s attack.
Almost a week after he set fire to his reputed wife and two children, police in the Ancient County are still hunting for a Bel Air, West Coast Berbice man.
The suspect has been on the run ever since police at the Fort Wellington Police Station mistakenly sent him away when he turned up there hours after committing the act.
A senior police officer in Berbice said that relatives of the suspect had promised to turn him in since last Saturday but this was never done.
Kaieteur News understands that one of the relatives is a senior detective in Berbice.
On Thursday, during the early hours of the morning, the man sneaked into the home of his estranged reputed wife Ann Simon and set her alight after dousing her with gasoline.
The couple’s two children, Osafo and Prince Todd, who were asleep on the floor, also sustained burns and had to be hospitalised along with their mother at the Fort Wellington hospital.
Simon sustained severe burns to her chest while the two children’s feet were badly scorched.
The woman recalled a life of beatings at the hands of the suspect, who she said is reluctant to maintain his children.
A few months ago the couple was engaged in a bitter fight during which the suspect brutally assaulted Simon, causing her to sustain serious injuries to her face.
However, like most domestic violence matters, the police did not take any significant action.
Simon believes that since her reputed husband, a truck driver attached to GuySuCo, is the brother of a senior police detective, ranks at the Fort Wellington Police Station had refused to act against him.
This led to further abuse which resulted in Simon putting her reputed husband out of the house that they shared. Simon’s relatives told this newspaper that the suspect had gone to the Fort Wellington Police Station but was sent away by the police there who told him to come back.
“This is unfair man,” a male relative lamented.
Simon’s sister, Vanessa, indicated that she was at the station when the suspect was sent away.
“I went in the station with he and he sister, and he asking if she burn bad. Then the police tell he, ‘go long, go long, come back later’. They de already know wha happen,” she said.
Family members are convinced that if the suspect is not caught, he may return to finish the job he has started.
The police in Berbice have launched an investigation to determine why ranks at the Fort Wellington Police Station sent away the man.
Kaieteur News understands that the suspect is facing three counts of attempted murder.
Meanwhile, Simon and her two children are reportedly out of danger.
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