Seventeen-year-old Vanessa Collins, who was stabbed early Saturday morning by an ex-boyfriend, was yesterday still fighting for her life and relatives said the young man responsible for the act has still not been apprehended.

Yesterday afternoon Collins, whose breathing was still being aided by an oxygen mask, lay on her back and stared silently at her relatives and would only whisper to her sister.

Vanessa Collins

Relatives said the doctor informed them that the young woman was stabbed twice in her abdomen, causing internal damage.

Her mother, Annette Sam, visited the hospital twice yesterday but on both occasions she lost consciousness and had to be taken away. The woman had told Stabroek New on Sunday that her daughter left her home sometime ago and had been living at various relatives as she wanted to have her own way.

Collins had gone to Victoria, East Coast Demerara, with a friend to a ‘back to school’ party and was leaving when she was attacked by the Haslington resident known as `Boysie’.  The friend had told Stabroek News that when the young man approached them, Collins asked her to hide her from him but she was shoved aside by the young man who then attacked Collins even as she attempted to escape.
A young sibling of Collins had told Stabroek News that the man had made at least two attempts on his sister’s life and one time he even broke into their Anns Grove home and took her away even though she was only partly dressed.

A number of relatives turned up at the hospital yesterday and they all prayed that the young woman pulls through the ordeal. “I want her to make it so that she could stand on her feet and change her lifestyle,” one relative said.