A man was up to press time last night fighting for his life after his wife stabbed him in the chest.
Thirty–nine-year-old Harry Narine Deonarine of Unity Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara, relatives said, had just returned from a surprise weekend treat for his mother when he was stabbed following a brief argument.
The man’s 15-year-old son said his father had just come from his grandmother’s house where he and other siblings had gone to surprise her for Mother’s Day on Sunday.
According to the child, his father repeatedly asked his mother if she had made porridge for his four-month-old sister. “She don’t cook fuh we, but me sissy small and so my old man ask she to make porridge for me sissy and she didn’t answer he and de two of dem start argue,” he said.
The child said his mother would be out all day and would only return home at night to sleep.
He told this newspaper that he was about to change his shirt and head back out to the road to hang out with his friends when he saw his father running and holding his chest and his mother with a knife in her hands.
“I pull over the jersey over my head and by time I look again I notice me old man holding he chest and he tell me run and go call my aunty,” he said.
Deonarine’s sister Faneeza Oosman told Stabroek News at the hospital last night that her brother had always complained about his wife and her alcohol addiction but she always encouraged him to desist from hitting her.
Oosman, who lives a stone’s throw away from her brother and his family, said that a little after six last evening her nephew went running to her saying that his mother had stabbed his father.
“I hurry to put on my clothes and when I run over by them I see one set of people in the yard and we rush and bring he down to the hospital,” she said. Up to press time last night, Oosman and other relatives were anxiously awaiting word on Deonarine’s status.
A police source told Stabroek News that the man’s wife told officers that she had been lying down with her baby when the man returned home from his mother’s house and started to quarrel with her. The woman reportedly told police too that he attempted to hit her and she grabbed a knife, stabbed him, and then ran away.
Police are conducting their investigations.
