The Guyana Defence Force’s Corporal Philon Edwards who it is alleged to have brutally stabbed his fiancée is expected to appear in the Fort Welling-ton Magistrate’s Court, according to Commander, Assistant Commissioner Kurleigh Simon
Simon also told Stabroek news that the injured woman Leticia Reynolds, 23 from No. 30 Village, West Coast Berbice (WCB), is in a stable condition.
A release from the police had said that the attack took place at around 7.30 pm at the victim’s home in West Berbice. Edwards lives at the same address.
The police stated that the investigation revealed that the suspect returned home at around 5.50 pm on Friday and accused the victim of permitting her son’s father to visit during his absence. The victim acknowledged the visit but said that there was no interaction between them.
The release said that the suspect became furious, took a knife from the kitchen, and allegedly held it to the victim’s neck. He then allegedly proceeded to stab the victim multiple times on the left side of her face, below her left eye, on her finger, and in her right abdomen. Fearing for her life, the victim tried to escape from her attacker.
The suspect retrieved a cutlass from the kitchen and allegedly inflicted a chop wound to the left side of the victim’s neck before fleeing the scene. He subsequently walked into the Weldaad Police Station and said that he had wounded the victim. He was arrested and placed in custody.
The victim was later taken to the hospital.
