–Suspect commits suicide
By Shuntel Glasgow
A 28-year-old mother of four succumbed to her injuries two days after she was brutally chopped by her abusive reputed husband last Thursday night at Supply Squatting Area, Mahaica. Her assailant, who was suspected to have consumed a poisonous substance, died on Friday.
According to a police press release, Thagewante Motie was chopped to the neck and arm at about 21:00 hrs on November 14, 02024. She was admitted as a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital and died at about 16:00 hrs on Saturday. Her assailant, Uram Doorbassa, also known as Anil, a 26-year-old labourer of Belmonte, Mahaica, who allegedly consumed a poisonous substance after chopping her, died on Friday while receiving treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The police said investigations indicated that the couple had an argument in the victim’s yard. It escalated into the man using a cutlass to chop his partner twice, once on the neck and once on her arm.
Mena Paul, the mother of Motie, told Stabroek News yesterday that her daughter had lived with her siblings at Supply Squatting area. Motie was a sales representative at a Chinese Supermarket in Mahaica.
Doorbassa and Motie, she said, shared a five-year relationship and two children, who he would visit daily. Prior to the chopping incident on Thursday night, Paul said, Doorbassa would physically and verbally abuse Motie.
Paul recounted that on several occasions Motie had visited her and stayed for weeks after being abused by Doorbassa. Despite the constant abuse, the couple continued their relationship. On Thursday night, Paul related, Doorbassa visited Motie’s residence and called her outside the home. As Motie opened the door, her mother said, Doorbassa dealt her a lash with a cutlass. At the time, her brother was returning home and he attempted to rescue Motie, but Doorbassa attacked him and he ran for help, the mother said. Doorbassa then chopped Motie several times about her body. When her brother returned with neighbours, Motie was found motionless in front the door with chop wounds about her body.
The other two siblings, who were at home at the time of the incident, had retired to bed and were unaware of what was happening outside. They were alerted by neighbours and the brother who then transported her to the hospital. Doorbassa escaped on foot.
“Them never live a good life, he does all time abuse she and she does go and come steady. When I was living with she, I use to be she strong hold and stand up for she, but I move out so it was she alone with the other brothers and sister,” Paul said.
She added that Motie’s last words to her before entering the theatre for emergency surgery were, “mommy take my children, I don’t think I’ll make it out alive, I love you and my children.”
Paul further told this newspaper that Motie sustained gaping chop wounds that damaged several organs. “She can barely talk when I went to the hospital, me had to put my ears to hear what she saying. I feel hurt,” Paul added.
