A mother of three is now nursing stab wound at a city hospital after being attacked by her common-law husband, who later took his own life in North East La Penitence yesterday afternoon.
Colleen Daly was stabbed several times about her body during the attack, which took place around 5.45 pm.
Up to press time, she was being treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) in a critical conditon.
Her husband, who has been identified as Glenn Forde, also known as ‘Black Boy,’ was pronounced dead at the scene.
Commander of Region 4(A) Phillip Azore last evening told Sunday Stabroek that a police investigation has since been launched into the occurrence.
Azore said investigations revealed that the couple had a dispute on Friday and it escalated yesterday.
“They would have had a domestic dispute that commenced sometime yesterday [Friday] and it escalated today [yesterday]… The husband… dealt his wife several stab wounds about her body,” Azore said, while noting that the man then climbed to their roof, inflicted a wound on himself and jumped off.
Up to last evening, crime scene ranks were still at the scene.
When Sunday Stabroek arrived at the scene, Emergency Medical Technicians were examining Forde’s body. They later pronounced him dead.
A number of residents had gathered in shock upon receiving the news of the events. “He shoulda really live to face the punishment fah wah he did this girl [Daly],” one man said.
A neighbour, who wished not to be named, told Sunday Stabroek that the couple had an abusive relationship.
“I was in my yard and I heard ‘Ply! Ply! Ply!’ Like somebody chopping, you know, like a wood or something. So I ask, my husband wah going on. He said ‘I don’t know’. Then I see him jump on a ladder and he was looking over the back [fence], so I say move leh me see. When I get up deh I couldn’t see anything because how the house is in the corner deh I can’t see nothing,” the woman related.
“All I hear they saying ‘Blackboy’ kill Colleen, ‘Blackboy’ chop up Colleen,” she added.
The woman said she immediately rushed outside and she saw Forde standing on the roof. “… I barely see she face lay down and everybody balling and he deh on the roof top carrying on,” the woman said.
The woman further explained that she tried to call the police via the emergency 911 system but several calls went unanswered.
She said she was later given a telephone number, which she called, and was told that the police are on their way to the scene. “I run and I try call the police but it keep ringing out, ringing out and I ask somebody else fah a number and they give me and I called. The officer said that the police on their way,” she added.
According to the neighbour, Forde would often physically abuse Daly. “I know he used to beat she bad, real bad…When he start to beat she, them children does run in front. I does gah open the gate and pull them in. The children does run fah they life,” the woman said.
“She go through real thing with he. Is years she going through them kinds [of] abuse and I don’t know how women could live with men in abusive relationship for so many years. Not because of the children eh. Woman is woman. Yuh could make it and she is a girl she does hustle… I hope she make it,” she added.
