A woman who received second and third degree burns at the hands of a neighbour says she has forgiven her attacker, but the law must take its course.
Ianna Noble, a 23-year-old mother of one s a patient at the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC), where she is recovering from second degree burns to her back and third degree burns to her left hand and foot. She was burnt when a neighbour threw a lit kerosene oil stove on her last Thursday.
Noble, who is a postal apprentice attached to the Mackenzie Post Office, said there had been a heated argument between herself and the woman. According to Noble, she was making her way to work when the neighbour threw remarks at her and she made a complaint to the woman’s in-law. She said when she returned to her 627 Half Mile Wismar home, she approached the woman. “I went up to her and asked her what I do she mek she always picking at me and I can’t seem to live in peace and a quarrel break out with me and she.” The two women share the same yard and according to Noble as she was passing the woman’s door on the way to her apartment, the woman threw the lit stove at her. “It ketch me from the back and before you know it I was a ball of fire.”
She said the woman stood and watched and it was a young boy who went to her assistance. “I was going crazy with the heat but I struggled and get my top off but because kero was all over me the fire was still burning me.” Noble said that at some point she lost consciousness and later found herself at the LHC and learnt that a niece had taken her there.
“I don’t want anything,” she said. “I just want her to face the consequences for her action. I have forgiven her and just want peace.”
Thursday‘s incident stemmed from an old grievance which resulted in a number of reports being lodged at the Wismar police station.
The incident has put a damper on Noble’s hopes for a special Christmas this year. She said that since her mother died seven years ago life has not been the same. “Since then I never had a good Christmas. I used to live in Sophia and about three years now I move up here and the spell of bad luck followed me.”
Life took a turn for the better last year, she said, when she became pregnant with her daughter Thalia, now 11 months old. But “I still didn’t get a good Christmas because I couldn’t do much moving around,” she said.
This Christmas Noble was quite sure that after a long time she would have had a good holiday “but now look at me look what happen to me.” Happy to be alive the woman said that rather than festivities she now has one wish and that is to be with her daughter having a smooth and speedy recovery.
Noble said that while she has nowhere else to go at the moment she is adamant about returning to her Half Mile home.
