Three days after he was stabbed in his neck and back by a man said to be of unsound mind, Kevin Layne, was yesterday said to be doing well but the horror of the attack lingers.
Layne, 35, was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital on Friday night shortly after he was found lying in front of his boss’s home on Robb Street, a short distance away from where the attack occurred.
Persons at the scene said that the man’s attacker, a known individual, threw the knife used in the attack into a nearby drain and calmly walked away from the scene. They said the assailant frequents the area and would usually have a knife or cutlass on his person. The attack on Layne was unprovoked, witnesses said.
When Stabroek News visited the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday, Layne, who is in the Male Surgical Ward, recalled that on the night of the attack he was walking along Wellington Street when the man who he said he had never seen before approached and started to brutally attack him.
“I de heading to the cinema and jus suh de man walk up to me, he didn’t had nothing in he hand everything just happen so quick and then he start stabbing me to me neck with a knife and when I go fah run he stab me in me back”, Layne related.
Layne also told this newspaper that after he was stabbed he ran to the house of a friend whom he had known from the Bourda market area and then called out for help seconds before he fell to the ground lying in a pool of blood.
“That’s the only person I know in the area that could a help me at the time, me aint know nobody else that could a help me, all I remember is a set of people crowding round me and saying that is a mad man stab me”, Layne noted.
He further said that travelling to the hospital he was not conscious and it was the day after the attack he regained consciousness.
“I know I wouldn’t ah dead suh, I hang on for me life, I had to fight fah live cuz is not ah easy set a blood I lose”, Layne related.
Layne said that he is now able to walk and move about, but still has pain in his neck and upper back where he was stabbed.
He said that since the incident, no police officer has visited him to take a statement or inquire as to what happened on the night of the attack.
When asked if he would go back to the cinema, which is a normal practice for him, Layne said, “I gon go back yes but I gon gaffa walk somewhere else, cuz me aint walking back the spot”.
