– leave him unconscious in yard
A 90-year-old man of Shieldstown, West Bank Berbice had to seek treatment at the Fort Wellington Hospital after relatives beat him at his home last Saturday and left him unconscious.
Mohamed Haniff told Stabroek News yesterday that he was alone at home when he was attacked. He was still lying on the concrete in the yard about half hour later when the maid rescued him, he said.
Other relatives who took him to the hospital said the maid was going to check on Haniff and his 85-year-old wife, Nesha, when she saw the man lying motionless on the ground.
She immediately contacted the man’s son and other relatives who arrived and threw “a little water on his face to revive him.” They informed the police at Blairmont Station and then rushed the man to the hospital.
An x-ray, which was done later at a private facility, revealed that he had sustained a hard hit to his chest.
Haniff who was still in pain when this newspaper spoke to him said he was a lying in his hammock when a female relative approached him from behind and started hitting him on his face and verbally abusing him.
The man said he got up and collected his walking stick to ward her off but one of her sons grabbed the stick and started hitting him in the chest with it.
The woman then proceeded to break the fittings off his water tank and threw them at him as the water from the tank started gushing out. Yesterday he said “the tank dry” and he had no water.
Before the commotion, he said, his wife who has become senile was taken over to his daughter’s house in her wheelchair and did not witness what had transpired.
He said the contention was over the “black tank” that the relative was claiming to be hers. The woman and her son did not enter his yard through the front gate, he said, but through the fence at the back.
Other relatives said this is not the first time the woman had abused Haniff. Police are conducting investigations.
A woman, Dhandai Sahadeo, 47, called ‘Black Jamoon’, was charged at the Fort Wellington Court on May 14 with inflicting a sound thrashing on her 70-year-old mother, Jagmattie Sahadeo of Bath New Housing Scheme.
Dhandai reportedly hit her mother with a piece of wood and fractured her right hand. Jagmattie had to be treated at the Fort Wellington Hospital.
