Psychiatric patient charged for stabbing lover

Jul 20, 2017 News

A domestic worker yesterday made an appearance before Senior Magistrate Fabayo Azore in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts for allegedly stabbing her lover.

Twenty-seven-year-old Melissa Dowridge of Lot 12 Last Entrance, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown, told the court that she is a psychiatric patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital; she was granted bail in the sum of $30,000 after pleading not guilty to assaulting her lover.

The defendant denied the charge which alleged that on June 19, last, at Merriman Mall, Georgetown, she unlawfully and maliciously wounded the virtual complainant Safraz Ghanie.

The unrepresented defendant told the court that she met Ghanie and fell in love with him but the relationship became abusive over a period of time.

The defendant said that on the day in question she told the victim that the relationship was over and he took away her phone and began choking her and pulled out a knife. “When he started to choked me I started seeing black.”

The defendant went on to tell the court that the victim attempted to stab her and she took the knife from him and stabbed him in the shoulder.

The woman told the court that she acted in self defence since the victim threatened to kill her.

Police Prosecutor Simone Payne objected to bail for the defendant citing the serious nature of the charge and the penalty the charge attracts.

The prosecutor went on to tell the court that police will be filing another charge against the defendant for a similar offense committed on the victim.

The court heard that the victim is hospitalised at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

After the prosecutor told the court that another charge is expected to be laid against the defendant, Dowridge said “After the victim came out of hospital he attack me again, so I defended myself again. I does trouble with my nerve and Ghanie does provoke me and push me to the limit. I am Dr Harry patient.”

The mother of one will make her next court appearance on August 2.