The Guyana Police Force yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for Matthew Gangapersaud, the Coren-tyne man who allegedly slashed his ex-wife’s face last month leaving her with an injury that required twenty-eight stitches.
Gangapersaud, 35, is wanted for felonious wounding. The police are asking that anyone with information that may lead to his arrest to contact the nearest police station immediately.
His last known address was given as Trainline, Port Mourant, Corentyne
In early October, Rezana Rahaman, 23, of Number 77 Village, Coren-tyne, had explained that the suspect left her two years ago after he moved in with another female. However, she said he would still “come around” as they have two children together.
Prior to that the couple had shared a common law union for eight years.
However, two months prior to the incident, she informed him that she wanted to separate officially. Rahaman noted, that since that the man has gone out of his way to make her “life hell.”
She said, on the evening of October, 3, she was out with a friend when her brother informed her that the suspect was looking for her. She said eventually the suspect found where she was and claimed that he had left his motorcycle at her house and wanted to collect it. “Me tell he me na want nothing fa do with he, why he left the motorcycle deh and he say he just want go collect it.”
According to Rahaman, they then ventured to her house where the man began insulting her after she realized that his motorcycle was not there. She said they started to argue during which she stood her ground and insisted she wanted nothing to do with him.
At that point, she told him to leave the premises as she took out her phone to call the police. “And he grab my phone and run out and then I call on my sister in law upstairs to call we neighbour who is a police and when he hear that he run in back and slash me face and get away.”
The distraught woman had relayed, that the man used a knife to inflict the injury.
She was rushed to the Skeldon Public Hospital where she received twenty-eight stitches.
Meanwhile, following the incident the suspect was very active on social media and even appeared live on a broadcast on Facebook sharing his side of the incident.
