Four persons, including a juvenile, were yesterday charged with the wounding of Cummings Lodge carpenter Dave Seecharan, who had his right eye gouged out in the attack.
Johnny Narine, Arvin Bharrat and Bissoon Nauth were released on $20,000 bail, while their juvenile co-accused was released on self-bail into the custody of his mother by Magistrate Alex Moore at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
It was alleged that on October 6, at Ninth Street, Cummings Lodge, the accused unlawfully and maliciously wounded Seecharan, so as to cause him actual bodily harm.
No details about what transpired during the attack were presented to the court.
Seecharan, 42, of Lot 1638 Ninth Field, Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara, who is a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital, had previously said that the attack was as a result of a dispute between his teenage son and another boy on Saturday.
The injured man told Stabroek News that he and his 16-year-old son, Karan Seecharan, were walking home at Ninth Street, Cummings Lodge, around 9 pm on Saturday when a youth, with whom his son has had disputes, approached them and snatched his son’s chain from his neck.
As a result, he said he pushed the boy, and he and his son then began making their way to the nearby police station when they were attacked. “I been walking to the station and both he [the boy’s] mother and father come with cutlass and start telling me that I want money and he father tek a wood and lash me. I lef unconscious then they sit on my chest… when I catch myself, I feel the blood running down my face and when I touch it I feel my eye and I hold it up,” Seecharan said.
Seecharan explained that his eye has been removed since he was told that all the nerves had died. He has undergone two surgeries.
