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Sanitation worker brutalised by reputed spouse
A Banks DIH sanitation worker was brutally assailed with a broken bottle by her common law husband on
The wounded Josephine Armstrong
Sunday although the two had separated due to domestic problems.
Following her discharge from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday, the wounded woman, Josephine Armstrong, 54, said that her common-law husband, Martin McKennon, shared her home for the past 11 years. They were frequently “separating and making up again”, within the period of time. She alleged that he suffers from a “drug addiction”.
Armstrong said that she expelled him from her home early last week, because he allegedly stole her television to purchase cocaine, to fuel his addiction.
The woman recalled that around 18:30 hours on Sunday, she stopped off at the first street in Meadow Bank, East Bank Demerara (EBD), with a taxi and proceeded to walk to her residence at Lot 6 Second Street Meadow Bank, EBD.
On her way home, Armstrong said that she heard her common-law husband calling for her on the road, to “collect a bag”.
“When I hear he calling, I shout and tell him to stay where he deh and don’t come home because he is a thief. I see him on a bicycle calling for me,” she related.
With the way she responded to him, Armstrong said that McKennon became enraged and dropped his bicycle and charged towards her.
The sanitation worker said that McKennon grabbed her by the hair and flung her to the ground before he “pulled out a bottle from under his shirt”, and started stabbing her about her body.
She said that the assault proceeded for about one minute, until a public spirited citizen was able to stop it.
She said that man was riding his bicycle on the Meadow Bank main road, when he witnessed the assault and stopped it
Man on the run,
Martin McKennon
by throwing his bicycle on McKennon.
She said that McKennon was shocked when this happened, and immediately ran for his bicycle and rode away from the scene.
The woman received treatment at GPHC for several gashes to her face, chest and left arm.
The assault was reported to the Ruimveldt Police Station and the matter is currently being investigated.
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