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Linden burn victim recounts torment
Ayana Noble, of One Mile, Wismar, Linden, who is currently hospitalized with extensive burns about the body after an in-law threw a lighted kerosene stove on her, said that the vicious attack is the end result of years of abuse and harassment, at the hands of people whom she never wronged— her in-laws.
Ayana Noble
The woman who was obviously in terrible pain was ‘clothed’ in bandages, and had a sheet loosely draped around her, as she recounted her gruesome ordeal yesterday.
“Yesterday morning I was on my way to work. I was going out of the street- she was coming from my uncle; we were the only persons on the street, and her words to me was, watch where you going, and don’t enter me path.
“I say to her, this thing gone to another level now. You does torment me, and do all what you got to do to me. You gon meet me now on the road and want tell me all kinda thing?’
Noble said that after she went in to work, she asked for a little time and stepped out of the office and made a complaint to the woman’s niece, who she would usually talk to when ever anything goes wrong in the yard.
“I told her I fed up with this, and gon put an end to it”.
The woman added that she went home a little early on Thursday, and she confronted the woman, who lives in the same yard, and asked her, “Man, is wha I really do? I never pick up me bag and come here just like that. Is you nephew bring me here. What you really want from me? This nonsense ain’t gon done?”
“At the time she was at the pipe. I don’t know what she was doing.”
Noble said that her attacker subsequently went into her apartment, and in the space of five minutes, appeared at her window with a lighted kerosene stove and said move from me f****ing door and simultaneously threw the stove on her.
Her clothes were quickly engulfed, she added, and even after tearing them off there was still fire on her back.
She was eventually saved from further injuries by her attacker’s niece who she said threw a sheet over her and succeeded in extinguishing the flames.
Noble was taken to the Mackenzie Hospital by the very woman.
Meanwhile the suspect, a security guard, remains in police custody.
Both women live in a tenement yard at One Mile, Wismar. Sources said that there has been bad blood between them for years, with the victim, who is employed at the Mackenzie Post Office, bearing the brunt of the torment.
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