– then takes her to hospital
A woman is now hospitalised after being brutally stabbed by the father of her son who accused her of being unfaithful.
Maria Ward, 21, of North Haslington, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) early yesterday morning suffering from a slash to her throat and three stab wounds to her body, including one to her left temple.
Relatives last evening said that while the woman is talking, her condition is considered serious and she was expected to undergo surgery last night on the stab wound to her temple. According to doctors there is some internal bleeding as a result of the wound. Relatives also said the wound is affecting the sight in her left eye.
The young woman’s shocked relatives said that they received a called early yesterday morning informing them that Ward had been attacked by the man, who practically lives at the young woman’s home. The man, Christopher Haynes also called ‘Clint’ and ‘Mark Anthony,’ is now in police custody.
Relating the incident to this newspaper, as was told to her by Ward, a female relative said that the two had travelled to Georgetown where they limed with relatives and friends on the seawall.
It was not until around 2 am yesterday that they arrived at Golden Grove ECD and they were on their way to the man’s home when the attack occurred. “She said when they reach at the back of the market he put down the box of food he had in he hand on a stand and say he want to pee. But then he walk up to she and slam she head into the concrete post,” the relative said. She said the young woman related that she fell to the ground and momentarily lost consciousness until she felt him slashing her throat. “She said she get up and hold she throat and start running down the road to he home where he mother live and she call out to them for help and he sister come and ask she wah happen and she say ‘come see wha you brother do to me.’ She said the sister come and peep out and went in back and then the mother come and peep out and she went in back too,” the relative said.
By this time, Haynes had caught up with Ward and he dragged her to an empty lot nearby where he stabbed her three times. Her clothes were bloodied by then and the young man stripped her and went to his home, where he got a jersey and a short pants belonging to him, and he dressed her in them. He then lifted her and took her the main road where he got a taxi and transported her to the GPH. “She said while in the car, he tell she not to tell people at the hospital is he do it but tell them how she get attack and she call he and he come and assist,” the relative said.
At the hospital, the woman said, that was the story he told the police at the outpost and “he was kissing her up and thing but when she went into emergency she tell dem what really happen and dem arrest he.” Haynes is reportedly still maintaining that he was called to the woman’s aid and he denied ever attacking her. He is in custody at the Cove and John Police Station. He took investigators to the scene of the incident and again repeated his story. The couple has a two-year-old son.
Relatives of the young woman were last evening angry at the way Haynes’s mother and sister treated the incident. “He coulda kill her and them ent do nothing to help she,” the relative said. They said the young woman told them that before the attack the man accused her of being unfaithful and from indications his actions were premeditated.
They said that Ward reported that Haynes had hit her before and that she had complained several time to his mother. The relative said that Haynes has clothes at Ward’s home and many nights he would sleep over, so he was “actually living with she.”
Haynes, a mason by profession, was expected to leave the country yesterday morning to take up a job on a ship.
