Pomeroon resident Richard Mohammed, who a year ago chopped a woman, severing several of her fingers in the process, is currently awaiting sentencing, after admitting guilt yesterday morning.
Appearing virtually from the Mazaruni Prison, before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow at the High Court at Suddie, Mohammed admitted that he wounded the woman on March 25th, 2021 with intent to maim, disfigure or disable her.
He had been indicted for attempted murder or felonious wounding in the alternative.
He pleaded to the latter.
Justice Barlow has deferred sentencing to April 7th for a probation report and impact statement from the victim.
The offender was represented by defence attorney George Thomas, while the indictment was presented by Prosecutor Tiffini Lyken.
The police had said that Mohammed, a labourer of Friendship, Lower Pomeroon River, and of Huntley Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, attacked the woman in the Lower Pomeroon area, where he chopped her several times in the head and other parts of her body, severing several of her fingers.
After committing the act, he was said to have set the woman’s house ablaze.
