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Moblissa man bludgeoned by friend, dies later
When Lynette Daniels’s husband, Davnanand, left their humble abode early Thursday morning to go hang out with friends at the village shop, little did she know that he would never return home.
Davnanand
The 37-year-old Moblissa resident was bludgeoned into unconsciousness by a drinking buddy, and left to die in a pool of blood at a ‘bottom house’ shop in the village.
Several patrons who were at the shop at the time of the incident, reportedly just stood around, and never rendered a helping hand to the badly beaten man.
He was eventually taken to the Linden Hospital complex several hours later, after the police were summoned, but died early Thursday night, despite the efforts of medical personnel at the institution.
The distraught wife, Lynette, related to this newspaper how her husband was battered with a piece of wood by ‘his own friend’ during a drunken brawl, and was left lying in a pool of blood for hours, in front of the village shop which is located under the proprietor’s house.
No one rendered any assistance, she claimed, even though several persons witnessed what transpired.
Both the man’s wife and his stepsister said that they knew the suspect, who fled into the bushes after word spread that police were on their way.
“When I go out to the shop after I see he didn’t come home, is then me know wha happen; is then I see he lying down in he blood, with a long gash in he head, and he eye like it pulping out; and the man wha beat he up bin sit down right deh (pointing to a tyre across the road from shop) but he run away, when he hear police coming.
“He does wuk in de backdam cutting wood, so he must be gone right deh, because up to now, police ain’t find he. But Davnanand and this boy (Victor) wha lash he bin he good friend. But people seh he murder before, that he murder he own stepfather in the North West where he used to live, and then he come here.
“And the shop owner, Mike, he bin right deh in deh shop and none of dem nah try for help he or nothing,” the woman cried.
She said that she began to quarrel after she saw the state that her husband was in, and that nobody thought of calling her or anything. Lynette said that she was certain that her husband could have been saved if he was given assistance and taken to the hospital immediately after the incident.”
But the shopkeeper, Mike, told her that they thought that her husband was just drunk ‘and relaxing’
“In all da blood, he gon relax with all he blood running out?”
Fighting hard to stem the flow of tears, the woman said that Daniels was a good man, with whom she had lived for about 15 years, after she moved from the Canals Polder, West Bank Demerara.
“Me and he bin live good; he was a good man, he never beat me or nothing. So many years we marry and he never ill-treat me- We used to work hard, we used to farm- now is me alone left.
The incident occurred at the bottom of this house.
She added that her husband was not a habitual drinker, but on occasion would go and hang out at the shop, where he would sometimes play dominoes and take a few drinks.
According to her, persons who witnessed the altercation between her husband and the accused said that the two men were arguing when the accused picked up a piece of wood and lashed Daniels in the head.
The assailant reportedly kept hitting Davnanand even after he had fallen to the ground.
His stepsister, Devina, said that she was at the shop when the incident occurred, but did not actually see when her stepbrother was lashed in the head. “But I see when he been pon the ground bleeding, and he de bleeding bad. He been deh like two hours, and is I had to pick he up, and hold he up and I had he in me hand all the time, because he head de bleeding bad.
“Couple people been round but nobody ain’t try to help or anything’’.
The proprietor of the business was reportedly taken into police custody, to assist with investigations, while the suspect continued to elude arrest. (Enid Joaquin)
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