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Woman hospitalized after setting self ablaze
A 40-year-old woman is nursing third degree burns about her body in the Georgetown
The injured woman
Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s Burn Care Unit.
This was after she set herself on fire in her brother’s one bedroom house at D’Urban Backlands, Georgetown around 14:30 hrs on Sunday.
The injured woman has been identified as Dianne Speede. She sustained burns to both arms, abdomen, back, neck and other parts of her body.
Neighbours claimed that the woman is mentally ill and only moved in with her brother, Lanceford Speede at D’Urban Backlands, two weeks ago.
Kaieteur News was told that Lanceford Speede is a gold miner. He left his sibling in his house last week and went into the interior to work.
Neighbours said that the injured Speede went to a nearby shop on Sunday to purchase five boxes of matches.
She reportedly told the vendor that she wanted to burn her finger.
“The shop man sold her one box of matches after she told him she wanted to burn her finger,” a neighbour said.
She continued, “It seems like as soon as she went home she started the fire…we had to break one of the windows to go in and save her because we were calling and she didn’t answer. She was on the burning
The house in Dianne Speede set herself alight.
mattress enjoying the fire.”
According to neighbours, “She does go and come. She is strange, she does stare at you and doesn’t say anything.”
“The two of them (Speede and his sister) used to live together before and they had some problem and she left his house and she went and live with her mother… Before she moved in back with Lanceford, he tell me that he will try to help her,” a neighbour said.
Meanwhile, at the GPHC yesterday, the injured Speede said that she is tired of the problems she is experiencing in her life; hence, she decided to commit suicide.
She recalled that she soaked a shirt in kerosene and lit it afire after which she placed it on her abdomen while she lay on her brother’s bed.
She was saved by neighbours who wrapped her in a sheet and rushed her to the hospital where she remains a patient.
Luckily, neighbours were able to save the house. Only the bedroom walls were scorched.
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