A West Coast Berbice cattle farmer is now hospitalized at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after he was allegedly burnt by a villager who dubbed him a ‘traitor’ after he assisted police in removing the car torched following an accident earlier this month.
Trevor Jameer, 51, a cattle farmer of Hopetown Village, West Coast Berbice was attacked just around 7 am yesterday. He was rushed to the Fort Wellington Public Hospital after which he was transferred to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.
A businessman’s car involved in an accident in Hopetown earlier this month which injured two persons, was torched by villagers and then pushed into a ditch.
According to the injured man’s daughter, it was Jameer who assisted the police in removing the car from the ditch. This, she said, annoyed villagers present who began calling her father a ‘traitor.’
She said, “From since then they have a problem with him (father)… They say that is betraying.”
She relayed, that her father was at a shop in the village yesterday morning when the attacker began verbally abusing her father. She said, the suspect then left and returned with a bottle filled with gasoline and a stick which was lit.
“He throw the gasoline on him and he push the stick that get the fire to the man and he (father) catch a fire”, the daughter said.
Jameer sustained burn injuries to his chest, right arm, right leg and back.
As of yesterday afternoon, police were searching for the suspect who is said to also be from Hopetown Village.
