FORTY-year-old Meena Crawford-Marrison is currently nursing incised injuries to her right arm, which she used defensively to ward off a stabbing attack allegedly launched on her by Leon Thomas, who has since been detained and is assisting police with investigations into the incident.When the Guyana Chronicle visited her at the New Amsterdam Hospital, she complained of being in pain, even as she was being prepared to return to the Operating Theatre for further surgery. Her right arm was bandaged, while she indicated that she had also sustained injuries to her head and left arm.

The woman and her attacker are known to each other, and relations between them had been characterized by frequent misunderstandings, which resulted in a magistrate placing a restraining order on Thomas.

At about 07:30hrs on Wednesday, Meena and her husband, Glen Martin Marrison, joined a Number 63 minibus in New Amsterdam to travel to Whim Magistrate’s Court on the Corentyne.
As the couple boarded the minibus, they observed the alleged assailant seated behind them; and “the man started to accused me of stealing his jewelry, and then he pulled out a cutlass and start to chop me,” Meena recounted. There were visible injuries to her head, right side arm, right side ears and shoulder.

During that altercation, her husband sustained a chop to his left hand, while sixteen-year-old Yashmanie Totaram, a student living at Number 19 Village, ECB also received similar injuries.

The injured individuals were taken to the Port Mourant Hospital, where they were treated and sent away, while Meena Marrison was transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where she remained a patient.