Shaunell Warrick is yet to regain consciousness after suffering a severe beating on New Year’s Day allegedly at the hands of her “on and off companion” but relatives are hopeful that she is getting better as they believe she may be responding to sound.
Whenever Warrick’s family members call her name as they chat to her, a relative said yesterday, the woman moves her fingers a bit. “We stand there and talk to her as if she is alright and over the last few days she has been making slight movements with her fingers,” the relatives explained.
This slight movement, the relative said, fuels a belief that Warrick is possibly responding to sound and hope that the woman will soon get better. Warrick remains a patient in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).
On New Year’s Day, Warrick was allegedly severely beaten by Rudolph London, her on and off companion of over 15 years. The man allegedly used a cutlass to beat Warrick and she sustained a fractured skull. Doctors have since told relatives that Warrick has a “50/50” chance of survival and this has not changed.
Warrick, a mother of two and a teacher at the East Street Nursery School, was attacked while at London’s home in Crane, West Coast Demerara.
When Stabroek News visited the hospital yesterday relatives were gathered around the bed of the injured woman. Warrick is still attached to a machine which aids with respiration.
London, 39, of 109 Best Village, West Coast Demerara, has since appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrates’ Court charged with attempted murder. The man was not required to plead to the indictable charge and was remanded to prison. His mother had told the court that he was receiving psychiatric treatment.
