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Mentally challenged woman carries out arson threat
– Plaisance house destroyed
Neighbours pulled a two- year-old boy from a burning house after a 45-year-old mentally challenged woman allegedly made good on her promise, hours after she was released from police custody.
The woman whose name was given as Denise Munroe, last night succeeded in her second attempt to torch her two-storey wooden and concrete house at 76 Victoria Road, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, leaving six persons homeless.
The woman and her two sons occupy the upper flat of the building, while her elderly mother shares the bottom flat with another relative and the two-year-old.
According to neighbours, around 20:45 hours, fire was seen in the upper flat of the building.
They then saw the elderly occupant of the bottom flat fleeing the house.
But neighbours recognized that the elderly woman did not have her two-year-old grandson with her, and they quickly rushed back into the building and rescued the sleeping child in the nick of time.
Firefighters dousing the embers of last night’s fire.
But by the time neighbours started fighting the fire, the top flat was already engulfed in flames, rendering their efforts futile.
They were however able to save the other buildings in the yard but it was not until fire tenders from the city arrived that everything was brought under control.
The woman had been arrested earlier this week after the first attempt failed.
“Three days before she go fuh light afire the house from de gas stove. We out it and we go at the station and mek a report and they come and arrest she,” her son Steve Glasgow related.
He said yesterday when they went to the (Sparendaam) police station to enquire about her, they were told that there was no evidence to charge the woman.
This was despite her son producing photographic evidence on his camera phone.
Relatives had begun paying close attention to the woman, whose mental condition deteriorated a few months ago, after she had constantly threatened to burn the house down.
But last night the woman was at home alone when she allegedly seized the moment to make good on her threat.
“I lef me brother fuh watch she. Me cousin call me and tell me de house burning down. When I come, I see de whole place burn down. Me ain’t know whey she gone. Nobody ain’t know whey she gone,” Steven Glasgow told investigators.
“Dis morning she self say she gon burn down de house. We does watch she but me ain’t know me brother lef and go pon de road,” Glasgow stressed.
This newspaper was told that the woman had begun to show destructive tendencies several months ago when she destroyed all the windows of the house.
Neighbours said that all along they felt that it would have been just a matter of time before something terrible happened.
They believe that the woman should have been committed to the observation ward since relatives had reportedly made moves to that effect.
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