–even as jilted abusive husband severely wounds her new lover and promises to finish them both off
TAXI driver Sultan Eshack (40) of Lot 419 Belle West Housing Scheme, West Bank of Demerara was on Friday night chopped several times to his head, forehead and neck, allegedly by the husband of his reputed wife of three weeks.

In obvious pain after being discharged from the West Demerara Regional Hospital, Eshack spoke with this publication from the sanctuary of his home yesterday afternoon, his head heavily bandaged. Relating his experience and giving some background information into the incident, Eshack, a father of five, said he had separated from his own wife more than six months ago, and had started a relationship with this man’s wife, Hardai Harrichand Singh, called “Navita”, prior to her moving in to reside with him at his home.

He alleged that a week after Navita had severed relations with her husband of 18 years and father of her three children, the man had showed up at his house, saying he would burn the building down and kill both Eshack and Navita.
Thereafter, he said, the man would often call her cellphone to threaten that he would end her life in a murder/suicide act.

A report was made to the police, and a week after, the Welfare Officer spoke to Navita, who related her plight.
Navita told the Guyana Chronicle that she had, this year, left her candy vendor husband of 18 years because he would often beat her in front of their children, and he was very abusive, both physically and verbally.

The frightened Hardai Harrichand Singh disclosed that she had stayed in the marriage for so long because of her three children; but she had had enough of the abuse, and decided to remove from her matrimonial home this year to start a fresh relationship with Eshack at his home, where she currently resides.

Despite the report having been made to the police and the Welfare Department, the woman said, her husband would not leave her alone.

Eshack said he had returned home at about 20:00 hrs to check on Navita, but as he entered his yard, he was attacked by the cutlass-wielding man, who had apparently concealed himself in the yard to await his return.

The man chopped him repeatedly to the head and other parts of his body, even as he, being unarmed, tried to fend off the attack. He said he sustained severe injuries to the head, and he displayed several gaping wounds to prove his point.

Even after the chopping incident, Navita disclosed, the jilted man telephoned her to say he would finish off Eshack and then deal with her, since he had only been able to deal Eshack several chops.

Although the police had been informed of the incident, they did not show up at the residence to investigate, and have reportedly told persons who called the station that they would have to visit the Wales Police Station to make a report, since the police were “busy”.

Up to press time, the police did not show up at the scene, even as the cutlass lay in the drain outside the residence where the attack occurred; and when relatives of Navita and Eshack showed up at the Wales Police Station, they were told that ranks were all occupied at the opening of the Wales Magistrate’s Court, thus the matter would engage their attention later.
By Michel Outridge