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Husband stabs wife after drinking session
Two years after marriage and having a baby girl, 18-year-old Filisha Nauth, is currently at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) nursing a stab wound inflicted by her husband after he returned home from a drinking session.
Reports are that the young woman had visited her mother earlier on Monday, since it was her mother’s birthday, and when she returned home with her 20-month-old daughter, her husband (Govinda Sookdeo) was not at home.
He was out with some friends at the Better Hope village, East Coast Demerara (ECD), drinking and did not return home until around 19:00hrs that night.
The injured Filisha Nauth
According to Nauth, she lives with Sookdeo and his parents at their lot 655 New Scheme Haslington, ECD residence and they witnessed the incident.
Kaieteur News was told that upon his arrival at home, the 23-year-old man questioned his wife as to where she was during the day.
When Nauth reminded him that she went to visit her mother, he accused her of lying and picked up a knife all the while continuing to argue with his wife.
He then stabbed her once to the left side of her hip. Sookdeo’s father tried to stop his son from inflicting more injuries and almost got stabbed in the process.
Sookdeo’s parents rushed Nauth to the GPHC immediately while their son “disappeared”.
It was his parents who telephoned Nauth’s family to notify them of the situation. Her family arrived at the GPHC and made a report at the police outpost in the GPHC compound.
This newspaper understands that Sookdeo is a joiner by occupation and is currently on a one-year “bond to keep the peace” since he had assaulted his wife on January 17, last. On that occasion he broke a bottle and “sliced” her hands.
Nauth’s mother explained that her daughter is strictly on a liquid diet and underwent one surgery as soon as she was admitted on Monday night at the GPHC.
She cannot get up from her bed, walk or even sit up straight due to the seriousness of her injury.
Nauth is also expected to undergo a second surgery shortly. (Kristen Macklingam)
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