Pharmacist died from ingestion of poison

Mar 02, 2014 News

..wife released from hospital

The Cuban doctor whose husband brutally beat her on her head and about her body has been discharged. Dr.Illiana Pairol Urrutia-Yearwood, 43, a Guyana-based Cuban Doctor who came to Guyana on the Cuba/ Guyana exchange programme and later married Victor Yearwood, 37, a Pharmacy Assistant, was admitted to the New Amsterdam hospital on February 19, last.
She had been beaten by the man following a family dispute at their Savannah Park Housing Scheme home.
The Doctor who was slipping in an out of consciousness when she was rushed to the medical institution by her husband was discharged the following Tuesday. She subsequently went to the Central Police station and gave a statement to investigators.
In the meanwhile Victor Yearwood, her husband, who worked at the New Amsterdam hospital as a Pharmacy assistant, succumbed on the evening of February 20 at the said hospital. The man had allegedly ingested a poisonous substance after he was subsequently informed that he was being sought by the police.
A post mortem performed by Dr Vivekanan Brijmohan at the Georgetown Public Hospital showed that he died from suspected ingestion of a phosphate.
According to reports, neighbours had to intervene after the man took a hammer and started beating the woman in her head and about her body. Her screams and hasty exit from the house attracted neighbours who hurried to her rescue.
The hammer was taken away and the man was told to take the woman to the hospital which he did. At the hospital he told medical personnel that his wife fell in the bathroom and hit her head.
The matter was reported to the Central Police station and Yearwood who had fled the scene was subsequently found by police down a dam at Lonsdale, East Bank Berbice. When he was found by the police he had told them that he had ingested poison and was rushed to the hospital.
The couple had been having domestic problems for some time now and was previously before a magistrate. Yearwood was before the court where he was charged with using threatening language against his wife.
His wife was also placed on a bond after the man had made some allegations. The magistrate had also ordered that they seek counseling.

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