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Female, 22, burns herself for 50-year-old lover

Dec 29, 2011 News

 

 

A 22-year-old mentally challenged woman is currently a patient in the Incentive Care Unit (ICU) at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), after she allegedly set herself alight for her 50-year-old lover.
The incident occurred around 13:15 hrs yesterday.
Injured is Shellon Philadelphia of lot 8 Haslington South, East Coast Demerara.
This publication understands that the 22-year-old was in a relationship with an elderly man from Plaisance.  According to a source, the man was about to end the one-year-old relationship and this caused the woman to set herself alight.
The source told this publication that she had just finished showering and had gone into the bedroom to get ready for work. She added that while dressing she heard Philadelphia speaking to another woman over the phone about her relationship which was on the “rocks”.
The source lamented that she heard the 22-year-old continuously saying to the woman, “Y’all want I dead na? Y’all want I dead?” The woman added that she did not take it seriously since Shellon would normally talk to herself and “say all sorts of things.”
“Is when I smell something funny then I came out of the room and saw she whole body on fire and she still deh on the phone that I run out and call my uncle and they put out the fire and rushed her to the hospital.”
The victim’s brother, Wesley Harry, said that his sister is a little “flighty” and the male took advantage of her. “He is 50 years old. Wha he want do with that young young girl?”
Several efforts to contact the perpetrator proved futile.
The incident was reported at the Enmore Police Station and investigations are ongoing

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