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Wedding house patron stabbed
– attacker flees, victim accuses police of sloppy work
A Stabroek Market vendor is currently unable to move after he was attacked and stabbed at a wedding house in Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo, in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
Fazaal Ally displays some of the wounds.
Fazaal Ally, 40, was stabbed about the neck and face, shortly after midnight.
According to the father of two, he was a short distance from his home, when he was approached by a seemingly angry man who kept telling him that he knows him very well.
“I didn’t know the man. First, I was on the road with some friends in front of the wedding house, bracing on my car. But then the rain start falling and we run go back into the yard. While me deh under the tent, the man just kinda rush up to me and say how he know me. But I didn’t know he, but after I keep telling he that he get me confuse with somebody else, he back off li’l bit.”
However, Ally noted that after it stopped raining, he went back out to his car, and that’s when he was attacked.
“Me went back fuh a box of chicken that I had in the car. Me leap into de car and after me grab the box, me feel somebody behind me. Is when me turn around, me feel a hard nack in me head. De man lash me with a beer bottle, and I start see dark,” Ally said.
He added, “Before I could do or even seh anything, the man just start jukin me with the bruck bottle. Like me just get weak, weak and couldn’t do anything.”
The Tuschen resident told Kaieteur News that he was rescued by an onlooker who raised an alarm, scaring his attacker away.
“Is one ah dem boys from de area bin pon de road, and he see wha bin going on, suh he start hollering and bin running towards me. Dah is when de man who bin stabbing me, run away. But dem boys manage fuh ketch he, and dem carry he to de Leonora Police Station,” Ally told this newspaper.
The injured man said that he was then rushed to the Leonora Cottage Hospital where he was treated, and later sent away.
His alleged attacker was arrested, and Ally said he was asked to visit the police station later on Easter Sunday.
“Me couldn’t even move properly because ah all the pain, but me punish me self and went to the station. But dah was a waste, because dem give me the royal runaround. I talk to one person after the next, and nobody nah help me.”
Ally told this publication that he was never afforded the opportunity to give a proper statement against his attacker, who was later released on a $10,000 bail.
“De head of de policing group and all to confirm it; De man could ah kill me, and dem collect $10,000 and leff he fuh go. I never even know he before now.”
Ally said that he returned to the Leonora Police Station yesterday, and was able to speak with a CID rank, who ordered that an officer visit the home of the alleged attacker.
“Fuss dem seh how dem nah gah no vehicle fuh go fuh de man, suh me family dem carry the police. When dem guh, de neighbour dem seh how de man pack up he bags and lef. Nobody ain’t know where he deh.”
Ally is blaming the police, noting that actions taken by “investigating” ranks were all sloppy.
“Dem seh dem would ah investigate. Dem nah do nothing, and me still here, can’t wuk or nothing, and this man gone. If de police bin do wha dem had to do, de matter could ah at least gone to court, suh that me can get justice. This man almost kill me, and now nobody nah know where he deh.”
Ally said that he is unable to work as a result of his injuries.
“Me gah two kids and two truck load of watermelon. All spoil. Over 500 pounds ah produce me lost, and nobody nah have nothing to say. This is the country we live in.”
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