Hours after he was arrested for brutally beating his ex-partner more than a month ago at Leonora, West Coast Demerara (WCD), Brian Hutchins escaped from police custody.
Stabroek News was reliably informed that the police acting on information received arrested Hutchins on Sunday morning at Stewartville, WCD.
However, while in custody, he reportedly managed to escape from the Leonora Police Station. Up to yesterday afternoon, Hutchins remained on the run.
Hutchins is accused of brutally beating Amrita Persaud about her face minutes after midnight on March 7th. The incident was witnessed by Persaud’s 14-year-old nephew.
Persaud had previously explained to this newspaper that her sister works as a cleaner at a bar in the community and would often times finish working late in the evenings.
As such, she said she and her nephew were on their way to the bar to accompany her sister back home when the attack unfolded in the vicinity of the Leonora market.
Persaud had related that Hutchins of Uitvlugt Side Line Dam, WCD approached her and accused her of seeing someone else. After she responded, Persaud said the suspect allegedly dealt her several blows to her face.
“….I was walking going there (the bar) with my nephew and (the suspect) come up from behind a container because the place did dark and he come up to me saying that ‘I hear you get policeman’. I say ‘bai wah is you problem? I tell yuh I don’t want nothing to do with you’ and he seh ‘you can’t get nobody else, I tell yuh’ and he go fah grab me and I knock away he hand and by time then he cuff me straight to me forehead,” she had explained.
She said she quickly shouted and told her nephew to run for his safety in fear that the suspect would have attacked him too. “…After the cuff in the forehead, I get a next cuff at my eye at the bottom. I didn’t remember anything else after till I was at Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) the next day around 8.30-9 (in the morning),” she had added.
By this time, she said her nephew had already informed her sister. How-ever, by time she arrived, the suspect had already fled the scene.
Persaud was initially taken to the Leonora Cottage Hospital and later transferred to the GPH.
The couple shared an abusive relationship.
Persaud had told Stabroek News that she has known Hutchins for about ten years.
She said they previously shared a relationship which she ended in June, 2018 due to his constant violence towards her.
Hutchins is known to the police. Apart from this incident, he is wanted for escaping from lawful custody and assaulting a police officer.
An arrest warrant was also issued for him in November last year after he failed to show up in court.
