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Mentally ill husband ingests poison

Jan 08, 2012 News

A mentally ill man was yesterday rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), after he reportedly drank kerosene mixed with gramoxone.
The man is identified as 53-year-old Lalta Mohabir of Lot 2 Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara.
According to the man’s wife, Surita Ramcharan, for the past five years her husband has been suffering from a ‘nerve sickness’. “Sometimes he will be good and sometimes he does trip,” the woman explained.
She added that yesterday a man went to their home to collect money her husband had owed him for some work he had done. “Me husband start to cuss the man and then when the man left he start to cuss we saying we deh with the man.”
She added that she lived at the house with her husband, her two daughters, sons-in-law and grandchildren and when her husband’s illness got the better of him he would often threaten to burn her house down. She also indicated that the man would wear her underwear and dance on the road and often curse (swear at) people.
This publication understands that after the argument between Mohabir and his wife was over, the man went on the verandah and consumed the portion then bathed himself with kerosene. He then threw the liquid all over the house then attempted to set it alight but was stopped by the police patrol that was summoned at his daughter behest.
The man was then rushed to the GPHC by the police patrol.

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