Port Kaituma woman hospitalised after being stabbed by ex

Port Kaituma resident Yonette Barrington was on Friday evening stabbed by her former partner after an argument with him at the Port Kaituma bus park and she says the thought of her children being left motherless may be the only reason he did not kill her.

Barrington, 42, is nursing multiple puncture wounds to her abdomen and hand at the Georgetown Public Hospital, where she has been admitted and is a patient of the Female Surgical Ward. Her attacker, meanwhile, has been arrested by police.

Barrington said that it was not the first time that the man had stabbed her. “He stabbed me before on my hand a while back,” she told Stabroek News, while adding that he was arrested on that occasion but she decided to drop the resulting charges later.

She stated that they used to live together and that she severed the relationship after she realised how aggressive he was.

Barrington related that she had just returned to Port Kaituma when the stabbing occurred. “I went to Georgetown on Monday and I had just gotten back to Port Kaituma when he started calling me all the time but I didn’t answer the phone,” she said.

She added that she journeyed home and decided to go back to the park to collect something from her shop, when she heard that he was looking for her. “These guys tell me how he deh searching for me and that he tell them he gon kill me,” she recounted.

Barrington said that she was speaking with her friend, who has a shop two doors down from hers, when she ran into the man, who started advancing towards her. “When he come to me, we start arguing and he cuff me to my mouth. Then, we start fighting and then he draw the knife and me and me friend run to the back of the building and he start stabbing me and screaming that he gon kill me cause I can’t lef he,” the woman said.

She stated that it was only after she told him that “Yuh gon kill me and mek I lef meh children them by demself” that he stopped and decided to take her to seek medical attention. She related that it was while they were leaving the shop, they ran into some policemen who arrested him.