A twenty-three-old miner was fatally beaten at Princeville, Mahdia on Friday after he tried to help a girl who had been in altercation with a woman.
Dead is John Alleyne of Yarakita, North West District. He had relocated to Mahdia, Region Eight.
According to the Mahdia Police, at about 8 pm on Friday, the 19-year-old female who Alleyne was accompanying at the time of his death had been in a scuffle with a 36-year-old female resident of Princeville along the Princeville Access Road. The two women according to the police shared an intimate relationship with another man over which the altercation ensued. During the altercation, the 36-year-old woman was stabbed in the neck by the girl.
Following the incident the injured woman left for home with the man who was at the centre of the dispute while Alleyne left the scene to accompany the girl home. Alleyne and his friend were about to pass by the home of the woman who was stabbed in her neck when they were approached by a 26-year-old friend of the injured woman who, armed with a piece of wood, dealt the girl two lashes on her shoulders and hit Alleyne in his back. The father of the armed suspect then seized the piece wood and carried his son home.
Alleyne was said to have run a short distance following the attack before he fell. The matter was reported to the police the following day at 7.am. The police then found Alleyne lying on the ground. He was later pronounced dead on arrival at the Mahdia Hospital.
Meanwhile, the girl who Alleyne was accompanying home when he was attacked has since been arrested and released on bail while the woman who was stabbed in the neck was treated at the hospital and sent away.
Alleyne’s body is currently at the Lyken’s Funeral Home.
