Brutally stabbed wife says… “Ladies, there’s nothing like a second chance…run for your life!”

Mar 05, 2014 News

“Ladies, there’s nothing like a second chance. Run for your life.”
This is the advice of Tomeakca Miller-Patterson, the West Bank Demerara woman who was stabbed close to two dozen times about her body on Monday by her husband, whose lifeless body was later found dangling under a water trestle.
The 27-year-old mother of one was brutally attacked by 32-year-old Curtis Andrew Patterson, three weeks after she reportedly ended their marriage of eight years.

The injured Tomeakca Miller-Patterson at the hospital yesterday.

The incident occurred about 02:00 hrs at Lot 18 Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara, where Mrs. Patterson was residing with her eight-year-old daughter after she walked out from her matrimonial home.
Yesterday, at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), the woman was in tears as she recalled how she almost lost her life because of her “stubbornness” and her wanting to give her dream man “a second chance”, despite being in an abusive relationship.
“I lef’ him already but I tek him back because I thought he would change, but he didn’t. He was the same way,” a devastated Tomeakca recalled as she cried out for pain.
She added that her husband, a Guyana Power and Light Inc.(GPL) worker was very abusive to her. “He would drink out all his money and he just wouldn’t stop gamble.”
The woman is nursing stab wounds to her back, abdomen, feet, face, breast and both hands. She is currently bedridden.
On the day of the incident, the woman who sells fish and chips in front of her house, said that she was fast asleep when she heard her husband calling for her.
“I opened the door and he said that he come talk about what happened earlier. During the day (Monday), I sent my daughter in the scheme to spend some time with him, and he sent her back,” the woman said.
She added that he (her husband) sat on the step and as he was about to explain why he sent away the little girl, he heard when she (his daughter) woke up and he asked if he could lie next to her a little.
“After 15 minutes, I asked him to leave and I lied to him and tell him that my aunt was coming and then he said ‘oh you want I come out’ and he picked up a knife from inside the house and stabbed me (above her left breast),” the woman lamented.
According to the woman, she ran out of her house and onto the road, shouting for help. “It got a tyre shop opposite me and I see the guard, so I run there for help but the gate was lock and the guard couldn’t come out. If I de know the gate was lock I wouldn’t have stop there.”
She explained that her husband then ran out behind her and started to stab her multiple times about her body. “He sit on my foot and he started to juck me up all over and then I fight myself to roll over because I know if he stab me up more on my belly it will be difficult for me to survive.”
The victim said that she was conscious throughout the ordeal. She explained that after her husband inflicted about 15 stab wounds on her, he reportedly stopped and said, “Oh my, watch wah I do, is best I finish you.”
“When he finish he run away and neighbours started to run out and they rushed me to the hospital,” the injured woman related.
She is currently in a stable condition.