Orin Duncan, the 44-year-old man who was stabbed at Meadow Bank on Sunday evening is still a patient at the male open ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

When Stabroek News visited Duncan yesterday, he said his doctor had told him that he would be fit to be discharged today. However he said he was still in severe pain and intended to tell the doctor that he was not feeling well enough to be discharged.

Relating to this newspaper what had transpired, Duncan who resides at 608 Turkeyen, Sophia said he had had gone to his mother’s Meadow Bank home to pay her a visit and was hanging out with a group of friends around 7.30 pm when he got into an argument with one of them.

Duncan said that after some time of arguing with his friend who is wheelchair-bound, two men rode up to him on a motorcycle and began hitting him about the body with pieces of wood. Duncan said that in an attempt to defend himself, he reached also for a piece of wood but was unable to save himself from the blows since one of the men took out an ice pick and began stabbing him to the left side of his chest.

The visibly shaken Duncan said that he managed to run from the scene of the attack to the front of his mother’s residence where he collapsed and had to be taken to the hospital by his relatives. By this time, Duncan said, his attackers had already made good their escape.

When asked if he had any problems with the two perpetrators and why they would have wanted to injure him, the father of nine insisted that he had no problems with the men or anyone and had no idea why they would want to hurt or harm him. He said further that he knew both of his assailants, but only from seeing them from time to time.
Meanwhile police are conducting investigations into the matter.