Trudy Williams, 29, suffered a fractured skull, broken nose and abrasions about her body during the beating. She was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital just after midnight on Saturday and is currently a patient there.
As her husband smashed a brick repeatedly against her head, she recalled, he kept saying, “I going to f*©£γing kill you and I ain’t going to get lock up because I was a police”.
This is the second time in four months Williams has been assaulted by her husband of seven years. She lived with him for three years before their marriage and they have a four year old daughter together. Williams is also the mother of a 10-year-old and a 12-year-old.
Her husband, she explained, was a police officer for about 11 years but lost his job early last year. He subsequently worked for a security service provider but lost that job in January. He was a habitual drinker but never physically abused her until last December.
She recalled receiving a telephone call from him that day in December. It was a Friday, he’d gotten paid that afternoon and he told her that he was drunk. Williams told him to go home, she’d see him after work.
“So we live together but the arrangement was that we would have separate bedrooms,” the woman explained, “but when I get home I find him on my bed in a pool of vomit. I asked him why he was doing this to himself and he immediately attacked me, hit me and hit me in several places.”
The woman still has scars on her cheek and shoulder from the beating in December. Both she and her husband were later charged with assaulting each other.
“After the story in December he begged me and told me that he would stop drinking,” Williams said.
However, things only got worse for Williams after the man lost his job in January. All he did was drink and laze around the house and she was forced to work wherever she could to maintain the family.
Last Thursday morning, Williams told Stabroek News, she woke up and there was nothing in the house to eat. She told this to her husband and he very “roughly” told her that she should deal with it. An argument ensued about his jobless state and unwillingness to change it. Williams later took her daughter and went to her sister’s house where she spent Thursday.
By Friday morning, the tension was still there and her husband was the first to get dressed. As customary he was going to meet some buddies for a few drinks. At about mid-morning Williams said she received a call about some work. Someone wanted her to do some domestic work for a few hours.
“I needed the money badly so I took my daughter to my sister’s house and immediately went to the person’s house,” she said.
By Friday afternoon, Williams was tired and had a lot on her mind so when her cousin offered to go hang out a bit she jumped at the opportunity. She returned to an empty house just after 11 that night. Shortly before midnight her drunken husband barged into the house and immediately launched his brutal attack.
“He started beating me right away,” Williams said, “pounding my face…I managed to run into the yard but he ran there behind me and grab me by the hair and start lashing me with the brick and kept saying over and over that he would kill me.”
A taxi driver and another man heard William’s screams and pulled her enraged husband off her. They then rushed her to the hospital where she was immediately treated.
The woman also said that because of her husband’s behaviour she was forced to send her two older children to live with her sister last year.
“He always used to beat the children so I had to send them away…I was trying to make my marriage work,” Williams said.
Her husband is currently in police custody, she said, and is to be charged tomorrow. He’d been placed on a two-year bond to keep the peace in December.
“This is the last time for me,” Williams stressed. “When I get out of the hospital I am going to file for a divorce…I am getting this man out of my life.” (Sara Bharrat)
