Schoolboy attacked by mentally-ill man

Kenneth David (left) with his brother Deon and mother Abigail Edwards at the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday.

A fourth form student of the Brickdam Secondary School was yesterday morning violently attacked in the Stabroek Market area by a mentally-ill man, who was later mercilessly beaten by public-spirited persons.

Kenneth David, 15, of Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara, was on his way to the Brickdam Secondary, where he is a student, when the man ran up behind him and struck him twice to the head before he could shield himself.

“He had a wood in his hand and he lashed me in my