A boat captain took his own life yesterday after reportedly wounding a Riverview, Ruimveldt woman, who rejected his demands for a relationship with her 14-year-old daughter.
Police said Jeffrey Narine, 52, of La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara, stabbed himself in the neck with a knife when he saw lawmen approaching him at a shop where he retreated after his attack on the woman.
In a statement, the Guyana Police Force said Narine, who had been armed with two cutlasses and a knife, had wounded the woman at her Riverview home around 1pm.
She was hospitalised in a stable condition up to last evening.
According to the GPF, at around 9 am Narine went to the woman’s home, where she lives with her husband and her 14-year-old daughter, and threatened to kill both her and her daughter if he could not be with the child. The police said the woman rebuked him and he left.
However, a few hours later, he returned with two cutlasses in his hands and a knife tucked into his pants waist and went to the apartment where he chopped the woman.
The injured woman was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The police said Narine, who left while allegedly stating that he would kill someone, went to a shop, where ranks who were alerted to the attack found him. “However, when he saw the police approaching, he took the knife and stabbed himself in the neck. He fell to the ground and the emergency medical services was summoned. The boat captain was pronounced dead at the scene by a doctor on the EMS team,” the police added.
The attack comes amidst the local observations of the UN System’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence activities, from November 25th to December 10th.
