A Port Mourant, Corentyne carpenter is now bedridden after he was stabbed in the knee by an overseas-based Guyanese on April 18.
The assailant returned to the United States the day after the incident.
Sewnarine Dhanai, 36, of Lot 27 Port Mourant, yesterday explained that his brother was hosting a wedding and he was present assisting when the overseas-based Guyanese requested six food items for himself and his friends.
“He and me brother is friends so he come for the wedding… So them deh sit in one circle and me give them the food and them eat so he tell me let me sit down with them and gaff lil bit so me take one chair and sit next to he and he deh telling me how me brother want give he beer fa drink. So me joke and tell he he come from foreign and if the beer a run out he suppose to nice up the things how he a get on … so, that’s all me tell him.”
According to Dhanai, this seemed to annoy the man who then hit him in the head with his beer bottle after which he stabbed him in his knee.
Dhanai, who immediately became unconscious, was picked up and rushed to the Port Mourant Hospital. “I don’t know what happen after that all I catch myself in the hospital”, the man noted yesterday.
According to the man, initially, his injury was stitched and he was sent home from the Port Mourant Hospital but two days later he noticed that his leg had started to swell.
“We go back (Port Mourant) hospital and them tell me wife that they might have to cut out my leg it deh bad and my wife beg them that if they can’t handle it let them send me to New Amsterdam Hospital.”
Dhanai was transferred to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where he spent twenty-six days during which he underwent two surgeries. He said the doctors have since explained to him that he has to remain in bed for at least six months after which he will have to undergo several months of therapy.
An emotional Dhanai yesterday related that his family is currently suffering due to his situation as he was the breadwinner for the home. The father of three said that his two older children have not been able to attend school due to their current financial situation. His second child was supposed to be preparing to write the upcoming National Grade Six examination.
“Me deh from hospital bed to me home bed, me get bedpan in the room here. If me want one cup water or medication somebody got to hand me. Because the doctor say if me put pressure pon the foot and the knee slip out again me go got to do surgery and start all over. Me family a suffer because of me, we a suffer, me wife a suffer, me children them a suffer…”
Dhanai’s wife, Sadna Kesso, 32, broke down in tears while speaking to Stabroek News yesterday as she explained that relatives of the accused have been attacking them on social media telling persons that the accused has been supporting the injured man.
“But is na true, them na give we nothing, not one sweetie, me na go lie to you, nothing them na give we, we na make no settlement, them na get no paper, only God know wah we going through.”
According to Kesso, hours after the incident, she and several relatives reported the matter to the Whim Police Station where they pleaded with investigators to place the accused under arrest.
She said after they learned that the man was making arrangements to leave the country the following morning she requested the ranks to stop him at immigration but was informed that since it is not a murder case then they could not do so.
“He fly out the next day and when we brother go over back and go talk with he, he call out my brother to fight and my brother had to report it to the police over deh”. Dhanai relayed.
According to the couple, investigators have since visited the home and taken several statements, and have informed them that the matter will be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions for advice.
The couple is pleading with the general public for assistance as their main priority right now is ensuring that their children can return to school at the earliest. They can be contacted on telephone numbers 653-3788 or 653-3788.
