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Horror at Bonasika Creek…Jilted man kills wife’s lover, chops off spouse’s hand
A jilted man killed his reputed wife’s lover and hacked off one of his spouse’s hands on Thursday night after sneaking into a house at Bonasika Creek, East Bank Essequibo in which the couple slept.
Police identified the dead man as Richard, a 22-year-old fisherman, and the woman as Joy Meyers, 23.
Meyers has been admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital
Joy Meyers
Corporation. Her left wrist was severed and she also sustained wounds to the head and neck. The woman’s three-year-old daughter, who was also in the house, was unharmed.
The suspect, identified as Davendra Persaud, 34, was still on the run up to late last night.
The suspect and the victims are all from Bonasika Creek.
According to reports, Persaud and Meyers had severed their relationship some time ago and she struck up a relationship with the younger man.
Police said that Myers and Richard were sleeping in a house at around 17:30 hrs on Thursday when the suspect, who was armed with a cutlass, entered through the open door and attacked them.
Meyers, who has been admitted to the Female Surgical Ward, told Kaieteur News that she and Richard were lying on a mattress in the living room of her father’s house when her reputed husband, Davendra Persaud, came in and started to chop them.
She said that she didn’t lock the doors because it was early.
“Me and he (Richard) went lying down and then we see he (Persaud) come in and then he turn back and pick up the cutlass and he start chopping and when he chopping, he cussing up…We keep trying to take the cutlass away but he just na stop firing the chops,” the mother of five recalled.
She claimed that during the 15 minute-ordeal, she and Richard both shouted for help but no one came to their aid.
“After I keep trying to take the cutlass away, he chop me and my hand just fall off and I start hollering more hard and I pick up my li’l daughter and run out the house and go by my neighbour.”
She claimed that her neighbour’s son telephoned Persaud’s brother along with the police and informed them about the incident. “When I run out the house, he (Persaud) run out and left Richard alone and I don’t know where he gone.”
After she was sure that her husband had left, she clutched her three-year-old daughter in her right hand and, with blood gushing from her severed limb, went back to check on her lover.
“When I go in the house, I see he (Richard) lying on he belly in a pool of blood in the front room… I try shaking him but he na move so I run out back the house.”
She added that her brother-in-law arrived with the police and they rushed her to the Bonasika Health Centre and then to Parika in her brother-in-law’s speed boat. From Parika, she was taken to the Leonora Cottage Hospital and then to GPHC.
Yesterday, Meyers explained that she had lived with Persaud, a farmer, for some time and gave birth to four of his children. She claimed that her relationship was on the rocks for most of the time. “He use to beat me and drink nuff rum and he does tell me that I deh with all kinda man.”
She said that she left him and moved to her father’s home four times, but went back to her spouse because “he does always come begging and then I does watch them children face and I does go back.”
But the woman said that last month she finally decided to leave him for good.
She went by her sister in Mahaica to spend some time and it was there that she met her lover.
“I stay there for a month and I see Richard. He live two house away from my sister. Me and he link up about three weeks back and I tell him everything about my husband and he didn’t say anything… He was really good,” the woman claimed.
She added that last Monday, she and the 22-year-old man travelled to Bonasika to spend some time at her father’s. “Like somebody tell he (the suspect) that I have somebody else mek he come.”
(Romila Boodram)
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