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Man with amputated hand gives his version of chopping incident
“…a story has three sides: the truth, lie and the cochore side.”
A 52-year-old man who is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) nursing several chops about his body and an amputated right hand says he did not throw acid on his nephew.
Leon Duke shows the chop he sustained in his head and his amputated hand.
The man, Leon Duke, of Prashad Nagar, Georgetown said that 33-year-old Trevor Duke, who is also hospitalised at the GPHC with burns about this body, attacked him, and was about to kill him.
“I don’t know who throw acid on him but I didn’t throw anything on him; he attacked me. He also attacked many people with a knife so I don’t know if one of those persons throw anything on him,” the older Duke claimed.
Yesterday, when Kaieteur News arrived at the hospital, the man was hesitant to speak. He claimed that he suffered from a stroke and cannot remember certain things, but when he was asked to clear his side of the story, he quickly replied, “a story has three sides: the truth, lie and the cochore side.”
According to the wounded Duke, the problem started over some water and brand name clothes that he had given to his nephew.
“I ask him to pump some water on Wednesday and that is what started everything. He get vex and start behaving arrogant, so I asked him back for the clothes I had given him and he say that I embarrassed him in front of his friends. He come home (Thursday) and choke me,” the man claimed.
He said that on the day of the attack, he was at Section ‘K’, Campbellville, when he saw his nephew hiding in the bushes with a cutlass.
“I ask he wha’ he doing there and he run out and attack me. I was down on the ground, helpless. He chopped off my right hand above the wrist and he chopped me in the head,” the older Duke related.
Kaieteur News was unable to talk with the younger Duke, but was told that the older man was racing towards him with a steel rod to attack him.
“The big man was running Trevor with the steel rod and he try to juk he, but he miss, so he (Trevor) pull out he cutlass and chop he,” a source claimed.
Both men are under police guard at the hospital. The younger Duke is in a stable condition.
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