A Lamaha Park vendor was yesterday remanded by a City Magistrate after being charged with attempting to murder a woman by stabbing her with a pitch fork.
Denise Hilliman, 53, a vendor of Lamaha Park Squatting Area, Georgetown, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan read an attempted murder charge to her. She was not required to plead to the charge which alleges that on July 11, 2021, at Lamaha Park Squatting Area, Georgetown, she caused grievous bodily harm to Otley White with intent to murder Otley White.
According to the police prosecutor, on July 11, the two women who know each other, were trying to separate two male relatives engaged in a fight when they had their own scuffle which resulted in White being stabbed in her chest. The court heard that Hillman’s son and White’s brother were gambling with some others when a fight started. White and Hilliman went to the scene and when White attempted to separate the two men, Hilliman allegedly armed herself with a pitch fork which she used to stab the woman.
White was injured in the right side of her chest and was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital where she was admitted to the female surgical ward. She is still hospitalised, the prosecutor said. He added that the matter has to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecution for legal advice.
However, Hilliman told the court that White threw a liquid substance on her and it burned her skin. She said that since being arrested by the police on Sunday, she hadn’t seen a doctor and that her skin is currently burning and she is in pain. She alleged that the woman’s family beat her after White was taken to the hospital.
The Magistrate advised the police to take her to see a doctor and then remanded her until August 5.
