A love story ended tragically yesterday morning when a Lima Sands, Essequibo Coast man was stabbed to death, allegedly by his teenage wife. Anthony Shivlall, called ‘Davie’, was fatally stabbed at McNabb, Region Two and his 18-year-old wife is currently in police custody.
According to information received, the incident occurred at 02:00 hrs hours after the couple had an argument while attending a birthday party for the wife’s grandmother, Bernadine Williams at her home on Saturday night.
Williams said that after the argument earlier Saturday night, her grand-daughter left and went home. The celebration continued, she said and she was dancing in the yard around 02:00 hrs, when she saw her granddaughter return. She said the girl asked for her husband and she told her that he was inside in the lower flat of the house.
“She went into the house and spent a while and then I check for them and I saw Shivlall lying on the ground and my granddaughter was over him,” Williams said. She saw her stabbing him with a knife to his chest area, after which she ran east of the lower flat, exited and escaped.
The police were summoned to the scene and examined the body. Detectives observed one stab wound to the victim’s left chest area, one stab wound to his lower right chest area, and one to his left hand. The police then arrested the teenager at her mother’s house at McNabb.
Shivlall was pronounced dead on arrival at the Suddie Public Hospital; his body is there awaiting a post-mortem examination.
The man’s father, Ranold Shivlall, said he last saw his son on Saturday evening. At that time he was in high spirit. He indicated that the couple lived together for two years and that the wife appeared to be a quiet person.
