A carpenter who was stabbed with a putty knife on Thursday night around 10.30 at a construction site at Parafield, West Coast Demerara said that his attacker “sat and drink rum” while he was lying on the ground bleeding and then fled the scene early the following morning.
Edwin Motoweren, 32, of Kitty, from his bed in the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), said that earlier that day his employer had been proud of the work he and two other carpenters had done on a building that they were constructing and had rewarded them “with a drink.” Motoweren said that after a few shots of rum he returned to his work but one of his workmates, who was still drinking, asked him to stop working and rejoin them. He said that he declined “cause if I dey keep drinking I couldn’t ah work.” He went on to say that an argument erupted between him and the workmate who later picked up a putty knife and stabbed him once in the upper chest.
Motoweren said that he fell and hit his head on the ground and had cried out in pain but his attacker “just sat and drink rum till de next morning when de boss man come back.” No one else was at the work site at the time of the incident, he told this newspaper, and when his employer eventually appeared, his attacker got up and told him, “You would get de same treatment too.” The attacker then fled the area. The employer soon got Motoweren into his bus and drove to the GPH where he later received treatment for the stab wound.
Motoweren also recalled an incident a year ago when he was sleeping at the home of his attacker, who was his friend at that time. He said he was suddenly awoken by a pain in his head, and he realised that the friend was lashing him with a piece of wood. “I dey forgive he then.”
Motoweren told Stabroek News that a report would be made to the police about the incident.
