Three persons, two from one family, were yesterday afternoon rushed to the George-town Public Hospital (GPH) nursing wounds about their bodies following family-related disputes.
In the first incident, which occurred around 2 pm at Strathspey, East Coast Demerara, 43-year-old Amintra Singh of Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara, was attacked by an older brother at the ECD home of their parents, the man inflicting several chop wounds about the woman’s body including one to the head and the right shoulder. The man was in return dealt a severe beating by other siblings and was reported to be in a serious condition.
The woman’s husband Ravi Singh, told Stabroek News at the GPH yesterday afternoon that he, his wife and his in-laws gathered at the ECD home of his late mother-in-law to clean up the surroundings.
He said his mother-in-law’s estate was equally divided among her children some three weeks ago. According to Singh, his brother-in-law had asked his wife to clean parts of the ECD home yesterday but the woman refused and this, he stated, may have angered his brother–in-law.
He said the man picked up a cutlass in a rage and attacked his wife, catching those at the scene off-guard. He said the man then threatened to injure anyone who came to the woman’s rescue but he was soon overpowered by his siblings, noting that he was beaten about his body with a paling stave.
He was being attended to by staff of the hospital yesterday as Singh made arrangements to travel home after being discharged by the GPH.
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During this period, Charleston Scipio, aka ‘Boogy’, was being attended to by medical staff at the GPH after sustaining chop wounds to parts of his body including a severe wound to the left shoulder following an argument with his brother-in-law.
The man’s wife, Sita Sookram, attracted attention outside the Accident and Emergency (A&E) department of the GPH yesterday afternoon as she hysterically attempted to get to her brother who also went to the hospital but who did not sustain any injuries following the altercation with Scipio.
Sookram later related that she lived with her husband in the top flat of her late mother’s home at Lot 43, Meadowbrook Gardens while her brother resided in the lower flat.
She said that the home was at the centre of a dispute over the years since her parents passed away, with her brother who was involved in the incident yesterday afternoon demanding that she move out of the house since according to her “he want the property for himself”.
She said yesterday afternoon around 3:30 her brother began arguing with her husband.
She said she heard a commotion outside, noting that her husband was at the time trying to fill water at a pipe, and on investigating she observed her husband being attacked by her brother with a cutlass. She said he had been “sharpening” the cutlass all day yesterday.
The woman, with blood stains about her clothing, stated that she ran to her husband’s aid noting that he sustained chops to the left side of his body including one to his right shoulder, which she and her neighbours who gathered at the GPH stated, was severe.
