Latest update April 18th, 2025 8:12 AM
Hammer assault victim in ICU, slowly recovering
The 38-year-old woman who was stabbed about the body and battered in the head with a hammer on Saturday last is listed as “critical” but family members claimed she is slowly recovering.
Sharon Goodridge, also called Sharon Howell, of Lot 81 East La Penitence, Georgetown was beaten with a hammer in her head, stabbed once in the chest and mouth and twice in the abdomen by her lover, who afterwards ingested a dose of poisonous liquid in an attempt to take his own life.
Sharon Goodrich
While the woman is battling for her life in the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU), her attacker, Colbert Rodney, 40, is handcuffed to a bed in the hospital’s Male Medical Ward.
Yesterday, when Kaieteur News visited the man at the hospital, he said that he and his lover had some misunderstandings. He claimed that the “misunderstandings” they had caused him to rush at the back of his home, collect the hammer and knife and then attack her.
The unemployed man said that he is very sorry for what he did and wishes for his “darling” to recover soon.
Meanwhile, the woman’s sister, Patricia, told Kaieteur News that she believes that her sister is recovering slowly although she is listed as “critical.”
The distraught sister said when she visited her sister yesterday, she (Goodridge) responded to her by “opening her eyes.”
The sister said she believes that the mother of 10 can recognize voices since “she opening her eyes when people talking to her.”
On Saturday last, the woman who works at a popular fish shop in D’Urban Street was stabbed and beaten with a hammer by her lover.
She was rushed in an unconscious state to GPHC and immediately underwent emergency surgery which lasted for several hours.
She was then placed in the hospital’s ICU. Her attacker, meanwhile, immediately fled to his brother’s residence in Diamond, East Bank Demerara and reportedly consumed the poisonous liquid. He was rushed to the hospital by his relatives.
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