The Eccles woman who was badly chopped allegedly by her husband on Wednesday morning said yesterday from her hospital bed that the man also assaulted their seven-year-old son before turning on her.

When Stabroek News visited the hospital the woman, Chitra Noharie called Veronica, 45, of Lot 51 CC Eccles, East Bank Demerara was in terrible pain.

She managed to recall when this newspaper visited her yesterday midday that she was at her daughter’s home in Eccles with another daughter who is 12 years old and her 7 year old son, when her husband jumped the gate and gained entry to the house through a sliding door.

Noharie recalled that her husband first entered their son’s room and assaulted him. It was their daughter who raised an alarm that her father was in the house.

This newspaper was told that up to press time the man was still in police custody.

From all accounts, sometime before the attack, the daughter who owns the property went out.

It was a neighbour who called the woman’s daughter and alerted her to what had happened and she went home and rushed her mother to the hospital.

Stabroek News was told by Noharie’s daughter that the woman suffered years of abuse at the hands of her husband. On a few occasions the police were called in.

The husband was found about four hours later hiding in a weed-infested trench several streets from where the attack occurred.