THE condition of 34-year-old Nichole King has markedly deteriorated in the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) following the knife attack she endured on Sunday night when her sister, 42-year-old Allison Bowen, was killed; the assailant, Alex Douglas, seems to be recovering slowly at the GPH, where he is under police guard.

In an interview with Ms Audrey Bowen, the woman’s mother, the Guyana Chronicle was informed that one of her daughter’s hands has been cast to facilitate quick healing of a chop wound that has exposed a bone in the arm.
The elderly woman added that whenever the mother of three, who resides at Claybrick Road, Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara tries to speak, she encounters difficulty breathing because of the stab wound she received above the region of her heart.
New information reaching the Guyana Chronicle indicates that a few hours before committing the murderous act on the 42-year-old mother of three, the assailant had earlier visited the home that they shared, because he had approximately one million Guyana dollars there, which he took away in a bag.
Based on the information Ms Audrey Bowen had received, the assailant had borrowed one of her cousin’s cycles to take the money to a nearby village, where his child’s mother lives with his daughter. After he had dropped off the money, he returned to the home and committed the act, Ms. Bowen explained.
The woman said that after he had brutalised her daughters, the man had allegedly walked to the railway embankment, where he sat with some friends and began drinking beer in what was described as a celebratory mood.
Minutes after reaching the friends on the embankment, he told them he had got word that somebody had stabbed up his “girl”. According to the woman, had he mentioned what he had done to the women, the persons he had been drinking with might have done him harm, since they were all familiar with the sisters, and by extension their family members.
After the family had searched for him through Sunday night, a family member allegedly spotted him at approximately 07:30hrs on Monday morning and began following him even as she continuously dialled the police emergency 911 number.
By the time the police had been alerted, other persons were also alerted of the man’s whereabouts, and they began approaching him. When the man realised that he was being followed and was about to be apprehended, he reached into his pocket. And because no one knew whether he had a gun in his possession, everyone was hesitant to get closer to him; but when he pulled his hands out of his pocket and threw the suspected poison down his throat, those following him quickly wrestled him to the ground, and held him there until the police arrived.
He was then rushed to the GPHC, where it was confirmed that he had ingested a poisonous pill.
Ms. Audrey Bowen explained that the man had long threatened to harm her daughter, and constant counselling from family members gave her daughter the courage to tell the abusive man that it was over between them. That news obviously angered him.
On Monday, a brother of the women indicated that he knew nothing of the incident until he got off work. The man said he passed the area where the incident had occurred but did not know what had unfolded since the family lived in a street, which meant he would have had to divert from the main road to get there.
The man used the opportunity of his interview with the Guyana Chronicle to call on all parties in abusive relationships to get out of those relationships while they can. He said he has read several incidents about abusive relationships and never knew that he would be mourning the loss of his sister or any other relative to domestic violence.
Police investigations into the matter are in progress.