The man who was wanted in connection with the chopping of a Yakusari, Black Bush Polder woman during a robbery on Saturday evening has turned himself in to the Whim Police Station in the company of his lawyer.
Salima ‘Mamzie’ Ally, 33, was rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital bleeding profusely from the wounds but has since been discharged.
Police sources told this newspaper that even though the attack was carried out during a robbery there seemed to be “other motives” behind the chopping.
Ally told Stabroek News yesterday and although she is recovering slowly from the wound she was experiencing severe pain.
Several reports had been made to the police about the man’s abusive behaviour towards the woman. Reports are that on several occasions he had threatened to kill her and her family.
The man was wanted by the police in connection with the chopping and he surrendered on Tuesday.
Five bandits, one of whom was masked, raided Ally’s brother’s house around 7.45 pm and robbed the family of over $300,000 in cash and jewellery.
Even after the booty was handed over to them, the bandit who was masked, launched a malicious attack on the woman, inflicting three slashes to her neck, a chop to her head, shoulder and a finger on her right hand causing the bone to be exposed while another finger was broken.
Relatives had told this newspaper that her throat was cut slightly and she was unable to talk at first. They said too that she is still experiencing severe pain to her throat and can only eat soft food.
The woman who became involved with the man about five years ago after leaving her husband — the father of her 16-year-old son — attempted to walk out on him several times to escape the abuse.
However he would forcefully get her to return to him.
Eager to share her story, Ally said she lived with him at Johanna North, Black Bush Polder and recalled that one time she had to leave home at 2 am to get to her brother, 34-year-old Yazid Ally’s home, where the robbery took place.
The reason for that, she said was because her reputed husband had chained her waist with a tractor chain at 8 pm after inflicting a beating on her. When he fell asleep she took to opportunity to escape.
Her brother then hired a taxi and took her to the Whim Police Station where a torch had to be used to remove the chain.
Before that incident he broke her jaw during one of the beatings and on another occasion he battered her and placed her on an “ants nest” where she endured further torture.
Her reputed husband was taken into custody and placed before the court for chaining her and for the ants nest torture but Ally is not sure what became of the matter.
A year ago, she bore a son for the man and even during her pregnancy, she said, he displayed his cruelty and hit her mercilessly, breaking her ribs in the process. He also burst her head. After that beating she ran away and spent several months with relatives at Skeldon.
However, about two months after the baby was born she ended up with the man again, much to the annoyance of her brother.
After the abuse continued, she walked out on him yet again and file for “support” for the baby but the man never paid any telling her he would spend the money instead to harm her. She said the man would beat her for no reason at all.
She recalled that the ‘bandit’ who chopped her also verbally abused her using expletives. While his accomplices were busy gathering their loot he wasted no time in attacking her.
Yazid Ally had told this newspaper that he had just returned from the mosque with his family when the bandits who gained entry to the house by breaking a window. Three bandits were in the house while two others kept watch under the house.
They first pointed a gun at him and instructed him not to say anything while demanding money and jewellery. He resisted, causing one of the bandits to hit him on his head with a cutlass. He became dizzy and fell to the ground.
The men then turned their attention to his 12-year-old daughter and “choked she neck” and took her to the upper flat of the building where Salima was with her one-year-old son and Yazid Ally’s two other children.
The masked bandit then started to “cut she neck like a fowl with a dull cutlass.” At that stage Ally took the opportunity to run out of the house to seek help.
His wife, who was in the lower flat at the time, recounted that she was wearing a pair of gold jingles and three rings which she was compelled to hand over to the bandits as well as a small amount of cash. They were not satisfied and demanded more which she handed over.
All this time, she said she did not realize that the bandit who was left upstairs with Salima was butchering her.
She was only aware of this when the bandit came downstairs and told his accomplices that he “done chop up the woman.” According to her one of his accomplices responded that he should not have chopped her.
She said after they left “me run upstairs to see what happen to she and the children tell me look the bandit chop off dem aunty neck.” She said the woman was lying on the floor in a pool of blood.
