Grove man receives 100 stitches after chopping attack

Joseph Clement Batson at his home yesterday

On New Year’s Eve, a Grove man chased his younger sister and daughter from the street corner where they had been drinking and smoking. Minutes later, he was attacked and chopped repeatedly about the body by the girls’ boyfriends.

Joseph Clement Batson, 34, of Saran Street, Grove, East Bank Demerara, sustained chops to the right cheek, head, back and legs. Last Friday, doctors at the East Bank Demerara Regional Hospital carefully stitched Batson more than 100 times to mend the wounds about his body.

Since the incident, which occurred some time