Geeta Boodhoo clutches her left arm reflexively; its hand has been severed. And the 31-year-old of Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo resident knows her life will never be the same again.
It was in the chopping incident that rendered her disabled that Boodhoo lost her mother, Zalima Khan, 55; her daughter, Ashley, 9; and a friend Floyd Drakes, 30; on December 16 last year.
Boodhoo’s former reputed husband, Joshua Franklyn, a cane-harvester who turned 45 the same day, and his
