DENISE Fredericks, 48 years, of 4669 Roxanne Burnham Gardens was early yesterday morning stabbed about her body by her reputed husband and father of her young son after she kicked him out of the home for not contributing to the bills.According to information reaching the Guyana Chronicle, Andre Robinson has been together with Fredericks for some four years and they have a young child. The woman had cause in the past to report the man to the police for his abusive behaviour, particularly when he is intoxicated.
On Wednesday the woman’s children asked the man to leave the home and never return since he was not contributing financially and their mother who is a newspaper vendor had to bear the burden.
The man did not leave without offering them some drama but eventually left. He returned on Thursday for a cutlass which he had in the home and that was handed to him.
However, yesterday the man showed up at the woman’s newspaper stand along Mandela Avenue and asked her why she would continue to put her children above him. The woman refused to answer and he then whipped out a cutlass from his waist and fired a chop at her neck which she barred with her hands. A scuffle ensued and the cutlass fell from his hands and he immediately whipped out a knife from the other side of his waist and began stabbing the woman about her body.
She fell to the ground and apparently figuring that the woman was dead, he turned the knife on himself and inflicted a stab wound to his neck and his abdomen. Both of them were left lying on the corner of the road until help was summoned by a jogger and they were taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The man is said to be in a more critical condition than the woman and was being held at the hospital under police guard. The jogger said that he saw when the man was attacking the woman but could not go to her rescue since he had no weapon to challenge the man who had a knife at his disposal.
This publication was also told by one of the woman’s nephews that the man had been jailed for three months at one time and at another time he was placed on a bond to keep the peace. The woman, however, sought to have the bond removed for the sake of their child and began taking the man to church and had him receiving counseling, but apparently to no avail.

By Leroy Smith