Suspect in Lodge stabbing discharged from GPHC

Mar 08, 2009 News

The police are attempting to contact Dianne Browne to obtain a statement from her concerning the circumstances surrounding the death of Julius Chung, who died from a stab wound to his heart.
This death occurred on Joseph Pollydore Street, Lodge, on February 18 last.
Browne was released from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) some time last week. She had been receiving treatment for the numerous stab wounds she received about her body in that February incident.
The stabbing death has left the police baffled and unable to ascertain whether Chung had killed himself, or had been murdered.
Browne had not spoken to police while she was a patient at the GPHC. The police had made several attempts to question her, but she had declined to speak with them, saying that she was not well enough.
However, Browne found herself well enough to speak with this newspaper on the very day she was admitted to the GPHC.
Chung was found dead in a pool of blood in Browne’s bottom-flat apartment minutes after he had allegedly stabbed her several times.
A source close to the police homicide department has explained that, due to the circumstances under which Chung’s body was discovered, it was difficult to ascertain whether Chung was murdered, or if he had killed himself.
From the time the police recovered two bloodied knives from the crime scene, suspicion was aroused that the story that Browne gave may not have been entirely accurate. From that time, the Commissioner of Police, Henry Greene, said that Browne, despite her injuries, was being treated as a suspect.
Browne reportedly sustained stab wounds to both of her hands, abdomen and back before rushing out of her downstairs apartment to seek help from neighbours.
There were conflicting reports of what really transpired, but the victim’s neighbour, Lawrence Ferdinand, who lives on the upper flat of the two-storeyed building, said that he was watching the cricket match between the West Indies and England when he heard sounds coming from the downstairs apartment.
Shortly afterwards he heard sounds as though someone was climbing the stairs that led to his front door, and a voice shouting: “Help, Mr Ferdinand, help!”
He said that he opened up and was greeted by the horrific sight of a bloodied Browne at his front door.

Ferdinand said that Browne was clutching her left side as blood oozed from a wound near her stomach.
He explained that before the woman passed out she told him that her child’s father had stabbed her. At the time he had no idea that Chung was lying dead in a pool of blood in the front bedroom of the downstairs apartment.

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