A Corentyne woman is now in critical condition at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after her partner of four years chopped her about her body yesterday morning at Number 55 Village, Corentyne.
Sandy Persaud, also known as `Baby’, 34, of Number 55 Village was rushed to the Skeldon Public Hospital yesterday morning after which she was transferred to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where she underwent emergency surgery.
The attacker has since been identified as her partner, a barber known as `Wire’.
Commander of Region Six, Shivpersaud Bacchus yesterday said that lawmen in the region were on the hunt for the suspect.
The woman’s aunt, Parbhattie Dyal of Number 55 Village explained that around 5 am yesterday she was awakened by the screams of her niece who was under attack by the man identified to be her partner.
“Me hear she a holla and when she a holla me done know because she say the man a search for am to kill am and me done know like the man deh in the house and me a holler `ayo run and save she’”, she said.
According to the woman, before relatives could respond the man had already dealt Persaud several chops about her body and broadsided her mother who attempted to intervene.
“If you see blood from the bed, she get chop on she right shoulder, the next hand, she finger them, she head, she back, she foot”, the aunt said.
Dyal said while rushing the injured woman to the hospital all she kept asking relatives to do was to pray for her. “She say ayo pray for me that `Wire’ chop me and he get away.”
Meanwhile, Stabroek News was told that the man who has been abusive throughout the relationship attacked the woman in February resulting in her seeking medical attention at the Port Mourant Hospital after which she proceeded to a cousin’s house located out of the region.
She returned to the Corentyne area last week and the man attacked her with a knife while she was running errands. Two passers-by rescued her and chased him away.
He then proceeded to send several voice messages to the woman in which he threatened repeatedly to kill her and continued to stalk the woman until yesterday’s attack.
According to relatives, the suspect had an overseas-based wife but after he got together with the victim his wife then “scrap he (sponsorship) papers and he left here.”
The relatives said that Persaud was making arrangements to travel overseas for a vacation which annoyed the man. “He didn’t want she go and he tell she he go call embassy and tell them she a go and na come back and so how come he start.”
Persaud, who celebrated her 34th birthday on Friday last, is the mother of two teenagers from a relationship with her first husband.
