A Corentyne woman is now nursing an injury to her face that required twenty-eight stitches after the father of her children slashed her with a knife on Sunday evening.
Rezana Rahaman, 23, of Number 77 Village, Corentyne, explained that the suspect identified as Mathew Gangapersaud, 31, left her two years ago after he moved in with another female. However, she said he would still “come around” as they have two children together.
Prior to that the couple had shared a common law union for eight years.
However, two months ago she informed him that she wanted to separate officially. Rahaman noted, that since then the man has gone out of his way to make her “life hell.”
She said, on Sunday evening she was out with a friend when her brother informed her that the suspect was looking for her. She said eventually the suspect found where she was and claimed that he had left his motorcycle at her house and wanted to collect it. “Me tell he me na want nothing fa do with he, why he left the motorcycle deh and he say he just want go collect it.”
According to Rahaman, they then ventured to her house where the man began insulting her after she realized that his motorcycle was not there. She said they started to argue during which she stood her ground and insisted she wanted nothing to do with him.
At that point, she told him to leave the premises as she took out her phone to call the police. “And he grab my phone and run out and then I call on my sister in law upstairs to call we neighbour who is a police and when he hear that he run in back and slash me face and get away.”
The distraught woman relayed, that the man used a knife to inflict the injury.
She was rushed to the Skeldon Public Hospital where she received twenty-eight stitches and has to return every day for “dressing” of the wound.
Commander of Region Six, Senior Superintendent, Shivpersaud Bacchus yesterday said that investigators were actively searching for the suspect.
Rahaman is also hoping the police can retrieve her phone which the suspect escaped with, as according to her the phone contains several threats issued to her by him.
“That’s why he tek the phone cause it get everything inside. All them fake profile he made on Facebook and write things how he catch me with a man and everything he deh telling me all this time… Everything he threatening me.”
The woman remains fearful for her life and is hopeful that the suspect can soon be arrested. She said the incident was witnessed by her three-year-old child who remains traumatized.
