FORTY-FOUR-year-old Phillip Williams of Five Star, Barima River, Region One was last Thursday brutally chopped by a man who was reportedly intoxicated and ‘out-of-control’.

Hours later, he was air-dashed to the city and admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) with his arm literally hanging by a piece of flesh.

The farmer recalled that, on Thursday evening, he was walking past the popular Stone Hill Junction Shop at Bay Creek when he saw a man called ‘Popeye’ and another person drinking alcohol in the shop. Together, the three began walking home, but without an argument, ‘Popeye’ whipped out a sharpened cutlass and began ‘broad-siding’ Williams.

Williams said he tried to block the blows with his hand, but the aggressor applied even more force, and he was severely chopped across the arm, resulting in serious injury.

Williams said he fainted and was left lying on the roadway. Towards dawn, he regained consciousness and struggled home, about one mile away.

“Is sheer lash I get lash,” Williams recounted. “That is the nature of the man, whether he high or not. He is violent. He beats his own mother and all, much less another person,” Williams lamented.
Police are investigating.