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Sheet Anchor woman charged with attempted murder

Sep 24, 2015 News

The woman who left a knife stuck in her husband’s throat and then went to hide, but was subsequently nabbed, was on Wednesday charged with attempted murder. Dianne Mc Calmon, 31, a mother of four,  aged 13, 10, nine and six, of Lot 99 Sheet Anchor Village, East Canje, Berbice appeared before Magistrate Rhondell Weaver in the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s court and was granted bail.
Police prosecutor Inspector Grace Bristol told the court that the woman attempted to murder her husband Daniel Persaud, 35, a fisherman of the same address on September 19.
According to information the couple has been together for 14 years. It is understood that they shared an abusive relationship. It is alleged that on the day in question the couple was imbibing when an argument ended in a fight. It was during this time that the woman took a knife and stabbed the man in his neck.
The woman was subsequently nabbed on Sunday by the police after the matter was reported. The man was rushed to the New Amsterdam hospital where he underwent emergency surgery.
He has since been transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital for further emergency medical intervention.
The woman had reported that she was the recipient of years of domestic abuse. She said that she has lost a number of babies, that one of her fingers has been  paralysed and one of her thumbs has been damaged due to the abuse.
It was further learnt that the woman is partially responsible for the state she was in because on a number of occasion whenever the matter was reported to the police and action taken the woman herself  would  go and withdraw the matters.
Prosecutor Bristol objected to bail on the grounds of the nature and gravity of the crime. She also stated that the man is still hospitalized in a critical condition in the Georgetown Public Hospital and that after committing the crime the woman had escaped.
The woman however told the court that since her incarceration she has not seen or heard from her children and does not know about their whereabouts.  She also told the court that since she was arrested no relative has visited her.
Appearing as a friend of the court attorney at law Kim Kyte John begged the court to grant bail to the woman.
Despite strenuous objection by the prosecutor the magistrate granted bail in the sum of $150,000 and transferred the matter to the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s court for hearing on October 5.

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