A MOTHER of six was brutally stabbed to death by her reputed husband early Monday morning, rocking the Linden community of Wisrock.

Dead is Leolyn Sulivan, 34, of Phase 1, B Wisrock, who was allegedly stabbed 21 times by her reputed husband, Plarence Carter, 51, at about 2:00hrs on Monday.

Police report that the woman sustained stab wounds to her neck, four to her shoulder, one to her right breast, and 10 to her upper back.

Plarence Carter also reportedly stabbed his foster daughter Shemeka Campbell to her neck and upper right hand in an attempt to kill her. His other foster daughter, Saskeya Campbell, was attacked, but managed to escape the ordeal by running over several furniture in the home before getting through the door. Both siblings were admitted to the hospital, but she is said to be in a stable condition.

Plarence Carter was also admitted to the hospital, to be treated for superficial wounds that are said to be self-inflicted and inflicted by the deceased in an attempt to defend herself. He was treated and released and is currently in custody at the Mackenzie Police Station.

Speaking with the Guyana Chronicle, Saskeya Campbell related the bloody ordeal as she tried to compose herself. She said her mother had returned home at about 02:00 hrs the said morning, after spending the weekend in Georgetown. Her stepfather started to accuse her of infidelity, because she had promised to return home on Friday evening. He subsequently dealt her two stabs, to her neck and arm.

“I was asleep when I hear a big slamming down, so I came off my bed to check and see what happen. And when I check, me stepfather hold me mother and he had a knife in his hand and ask mommy ‘how you could do this to me?’” she related.

According to Saskeya, he stabbed her mother, and her older sister rushed to part them, but she also was stabbed.

“She push me and run in the bedroom and tell me, ‘Saski, help me! Me ain’t breathing properly, but go and see what happen to mommy’,” Saskeya said.

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Her stepfather then returned to her mother and continued to stab the woman about her body. At the same time he placed his attention on her and began to chase her around the house. “He start running me around the house, and I jump on the wardrobe and get away through the door, and mommy jump through the window to help me,” said a terrified Saskeya.

She and her mother attempted to seek the assistance of the neighbour by running away, but the stepfather overtook her mother.

“I begged her to run faster as we were being chased by my stepfather. I pass me mother and I look back and I say ‘mommy, run lil mo, he coming’, and I open the gate to call the neighbour and he reach up mommy and start stabbing she up mo, saying that ya gah fuh dead! Ya gah fuh dead!

Plarence allegedly returned home in an attempt to kill himself, while Leolyn was rushed to the Linden Hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.

The couple had shared a common-law relationship for about five years. Two children wer born from it, aged three and seven. Saskeya said that even though she had never seen her stepfather hit her mother, they argued a lot, and most of the time it was about him not adequately providing for the family, since he was a carpenter by trade and was seasonally employed.

“My mother use to tell he wah kind a man is he, because he does hardly work,” she articulated.

A close friend of the deceased told the Guyana Chronicle that the relationship was very abusive, and her friend was on the verge of ending it.

Leolyn was a vendor at the Mackenzie Market, and was described as a hard working person. She leaves to mourn six children.

By Vanessa Braithwaite