Nurse wants husband charged over attempt to kill her

Stephanie Sampson’s sutured hands

More than two weeks after her throat was slashed and she was stabbed multiple times by her husband, a 22-year-old Bartica nurse says that the authorities are not moving fast enough to charge the man—a prison officer—and she wants the process to be sped up because she feels unsafe.

The violent attack on December 23 at the Mazaruni Prison has left Stephanie Sampson fearful for her life and barely able to use her hands. “When I ask anybody, they say he is military, so it takes time,” the woman told Stabroek News yesterday, her wounds still visible though healing.

Her throat was slashed, she was stabbed six times in the left breast, once to the right breast, one time in her left arm and she also sustained several cuts on her hands as she tried to fend off the knife used in the attack. The matter was reported to the Bartica Police Station but the man was released on $75,000 station bail and since then someone claiming to be his cousin has sent menacing text messages to her, she said.

Stephanie Sampson’s wounded neck, arm and chest
Stephanie Sampson’s wounded neck, arm and chest

Sampson and her husband, who were married for eight months, lived in the compound of the Mazaruni Prison and she related that on December 21, when she arrived home from work at the Bartica Hospital, she asked him whether he had cleaned the bathroom and toilet and he said because of work he had not done so. Sampson recalled that she then told him to relax and she would do it but he began accusing her of having an affair and said that