One charged with attempted murder
An 18-year-old university student from Berbice narrowly escaped being raped and murdered by two attackers last week but has lost her thumb in the process. One man has since been charged with attempted murder.
The incident, which occurred around 8:30 pm as the student was returning home from a stationery store at Port Mourant, Corentyne has left her deeply traumatized. The teen received seven stitches to her head and 43 to her hand.
One of the alleged attackers, Devindra Thomas of Swamp Section, Rose Hall Town, said to be in his late teens, was charged with attempted murder at the Whim Court on Monday. He was not required to plead and was refused bail. Magistrate Chandra Sohan adjourned the matter for September 30.
Thomas was captured during a search a few hours after the incident while his accomplice is still at large. The two pounced on her and one started to touch her buttocks. In retaliation, she shouted, “What is wrong with you? Go along your bloody way!”
At this stage one jumped off a bicycle they were riding and said “you can’t talk to me like that, me a gangster.” She told Stabroek News that the next thing she knew one of the attackers grabbed her by the neck and “tried to wring it backwards to break it.”
She said she “tried to scream but no sound came out” as she struggled to break loose. Meanwhile the other attacker was grabbing at other parts of her body. She eventually managed to free herself from the grip and started to scream.
She said that by this time the attackers pulled out a cutlass and fired a chop to her head. They fired a second chop but this time she managed to “block the chop” with her left hand causing her thumb and index finger to be severed.
The student said she screamed and ran towards the stationery store while the man continued firing chops which narrowly missed the back of her neck.
She was rushed to the New Amsterdam hospital where she underwent emergency surgery. She was admitted to the institution for five days and plans to seek further treatment in Georgetown.
Efforts by the doctors to save her thumb proved futile. Another surgery was subsequently performed successfully to allow her other fingers to function normally.
She told this newspaper that robbery was not the motive as the attackers did not remove her Motorola A1200 cellular phone, cash and a gold ring she had in her possession.
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GTBEAT:::::awwww you getting real close to the real issues and problems there….monkey heard…monkey see….monkey do……well said……but some bloggers here dont like facts and or figures……
So lucky!! that she could of shake off this with life, her wounds will soon heal but the truama will be for a long time. Her family love will help her to recover faster than expected, I guess…
The girl in Mahaica was not so fortunate she was brutally murdered…..Those two guys (when the other is caught) should be castigated with the Full Force of the law.. Mista pressi ah tel yall bring back de Cat 9 Tail…..Suh Lang….
Our youth can adopt the “thugs” and “gangster” image because they know that the law is “lenient”. They want to be thugs, treat them like thugs. I agree witht he previous bloggers, “beat them with many stripes” or hang them high and set an example. It got to stop somewhere!
To the young lady involved, i wish for you a speedy recovery.
It is long overdue time to stop talking and more action, this government makes me feel impotent. Time is now to act, people must take a stand, even if it is your relative. Time to wipe out the nastiness and shame that is going on in “GUYANA”. Ketch dem and kill dem. Forget about human rights, do they comment when criminals rape,kill,rob and destroy communities. Time for Government to be more firm and positve about corruption and illdeeds that is stagnating “GUYANA” development. Thank you.
this is becomin 2 rampant in guyana rape we need to change the law for rapers we need to make at lease one of them a livin example if not it will continue …..i will say to the young lady u r very brave u never give up ….we need to put in order 12 strokes for each rapist under any circumstances attempt or attempt rape how ever u want to put it …..when i hear abt rape it reminds me of the movie …..Samuel L Jackson A TIME TO K**L
May God give her strength to go on. The penalty for these crimes should be severe. Guyana has approximately 700.000 people. Lord help us if we had a million, or more. This is lawlessness to the highest degree. Something has to be done, and fast. We have to think about our women and children. Mr Government you have to act fast, things are getting out of hand.
When you catch the other , send them both to jail for life.
Very sad, wish this young lady fast recovery, to her parents, u have a very strong daughter, although bleeding, she found the strength to run for help.
If the laws were different in Guyana, all these wanton acts would have ceased ever since.
I’m tired of this, women cannot walk the streets without being attacked.?
Wonder why SN keeps altering my bolggs, I’m accustomed to free speech in this Country, why is Guyana different?, if we the bloggers cannot have freedom, why blogg?