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Oct 03, 2012 News
By Romila Boodram
Police have detained a Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD) woman, whose husband was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) early yesterday morning.
Twenty-three-year-old Sam Lall of Lot 631 Block 8, Mon Repos, reportedly had a stab wound to his chest.
There are conflicting reports from neighbours as well as the dead man’s wife of how Lall received the wound but police are treating the incident as a murder.
The fisherman’s wife is claiming that she and her husband had a confrontation during which he picked up a knife and stabbed himself.
But neighbours and the dead man’s relatives are adamant that his wife stabbed him.
Yesterday, when Kaieteur News arrived at the Mon Repos home Lall had shared with his wife and three children, police were combing the yard for possible clues.
They eventually found a bloody knife at the side of the house, which they suspect was used to inflict the fatal wound. The dead man’s wife was in tears as police questioned her.
Two of her three children were standing outside with relatives and shocked neighbours.
According to Lall’s mother-in-law, Rita, she was at home preparing to go to work when her daughter called and informed her that the fisherman was bleeding.
“When I hear, I run to the house and I see he lay down at the front door and the whole place was in blood, so I call a taxi and send she with him at the hospital,” Rita claimed.
When asked whether her daughter told her what had happened, she replied in the negative. “No, she didn’t tell me anything and I didn’t ask.”
A neighbour, who gave his name only as Ivan, said that he lifted the badly wounded fisherman into the taxi.
“I was sleeping and I hear she (victim’s wife) calling me and when I go I see he (Lall) deh lay down in he underwear alone on the verandah and he bleeding bad, bad. So I hurry and I help put he in the car to go to the hospital but he bin look like he done dead.”
“If you see blood, too much blood…he was bleeding too much man, too much, the whole place was in blood.”
Meanwhile, as the police were taking the woman to the nearby Beterverwagting Police Station, she told this publication that “me and he bin a quarrel and he pick up two knives and he stabbed himself.”
The police stopped her from revealing anymore information and took her away.
Dindial Lall, the dead man’s brother, said that the couple usually quarreled a lot and sometimes it led to bitter fights.
“She said that they were fighting, and she don’t have any marks. My brother…he wouldn’t allow her to stab him without fighting back and he wouldn’t stab himself.”
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