Vashtie Mahase, the 21-year-old mother of two who was brutally chopped by her partner on Sunday is grateful to be alive but remains fearful for her safety as her attacker remains on the run.
“I am very scared of him because I know he will come back…he threaten me. He tell me that how he guh mek sure me dead”, Mahase told Stabroek News yesterday.
Up to yesterday, police were still to take a statement from her or offer protection.
Mahase, who sustained chop wounds about her body including to her head, neck, face and hands said her main concern presently is her safety.
She is therefore calling on the police to act swiftly so that the suspect; Fazil Osman, a 39-year-old farmer of Mahaica can be apprehended and placed behind bars. “Because I am still afraid of he and I know he is out there still”, Mahase said.
The injured woman is hoping that she will receive justice since she said the suspect told her that he has police contacts. “He (Osman) told me that how he got contact at the station and that if I ever go deh and mek a report, they nah guh do nothing about it. They go fault me”, she said.
Mahase called “Amanda”, a resident of Good Hope, East Coast Demerara was attacked and chopped allegedly by the suspect on Sunday while she was in the company of a female rural constable to serve a restraining order on him at Mahaica.
The injured woman and the suspect had been living together for six months. Mahase said her relationship with the suspect was “rocky”.
She said she was physically abused on several occasions and this was the second time she attempted to leave the suspect. “The first time he accuse me of thiefing from him…some Canadian dollar and US dollar and all kinda thing. It always about money fah he”, Mahase recalled.
She alleged that on that occasion, Osman beat her with a cutlass and locked her up in the house for a week, preventing her from escaping. “….One time he take a cutlass and broadside me. I didn’t report it because he lock me up in the house fah one week straight…..I was in the house alone downstairs. He break meh cell phone up tuh. So I didn’t had no way to call nobody and so and he does gone with all the money and suh. He don’t leave no money with me and thing”, she said.
After filing a report with the police, Mahase said she was asked to accompany a Rural Constable to serve Osman with a restraining order and this was when she was attacked.
Mahase said that the incident on Sunday stemmed from an argument she and the suspect had after he learnt she was pregnant. “Well before me and he nah been get wrong as yet. I was pregnant for him right and he tell me if I only throw away the baby, he is going to chop out me neck and I leave and I go to the station and make a report against him and I go away by meh mother”, she said.
“And Sunday wah gone I had to get the restraining order to serve it to him and when I go to the station back, dah was Mahaica police station. I go to the station and I tell them that they aint serve the man (Osman) the letter as yet and a normal police girl (the RC), them send me with her to serve the letter. And when I go serve the letter, the man accuse me of thiefing he money”, Mahase further explained.
She said although she didn’t wanted to go to the suspect’s house, she was told that she needed to in order to identify the suspect. “I did not want to go. I told her (RC) I am not going because I told her this man is a very aggressive man and this man like to use cutlass and she tell me if me aint go the man guh seh that how is nah he the letter got to serve to. So she tell me so long she deh with me, he can’t do me nothing and she was right there when the man run out with the cutlass and start fire chop on meh. She run and lef me”, she recalled.
Mahase said she shouted for assistance but the RC disappeared. “She (RC) just run and lef me. She did not look back, she just run”, she added,
The injured woman said that she believed if the RC was armed, the incident could have been avoided. “I did not know she (the RC) was unarmed. I thought she had a gun because she tell me so long I with her, we are safe. Nobody can’t do we nothing. I did not know she was unarmed. Because I know if she had a gun she would do something”, Mahase said.
As she awaits justice, Mahase is now contemplating her next move. “When me get discharge, me can’t even go by meh mother house because he gun want come deh too and finish me”, she lamented.
