Chopped cop undergoes surgery for severed knee

Audwin Amsterdam

Audwin Amsterdam, a young police constable who was attacked by his neighbour on Sunday, yesterday underwent surgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital for a severed right knee.

Amsterdam is recovering in the Male Surgical Ward. The policeman said he was standing outside his car at his home in De Kenderen, West Coast Demerara when someone lashed him in his back. “I feel like someone was behind me and then when I turn I see him and he daelt a lash in my back with the cutlass,” he said.  He added that he tried to