An 18-year-old man was yesterday remanded when he appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle accused of unlawfully and maliciously wounding his mother.
It is alleged that Dmatayo Laddell of Section ‘C’ Christianburg, Wismar, Linden maliciously assaulted his mother Michelle Rutherford, 40, causing her actual bodily harm on September 3. He was not required to plead to the indictable charge when it was read to him by the magistrate.
The mother of three, who was almost chopped to death by her son, remains a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Yesterday when Stabroek News visited the woman at the hospital she related that she was feeling sporadic pains. She explained that she was still in shock over what transpired since nothing of the sort ever happened before.
Rutherford had been cooking lunch when her son who lives next door visited. She said that he looked at her strangely, hollering “you see wha you do, I gaffa kill you.” He then reportedly pulled a cutlass out and began chopping her. She sustained chops wounds to her right hand and her head.
