…emergency surgery aborted because of high blood pressure

UP to press time 31-year-old mother of six, Malicia Andrews, was listed as being in a critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) and was on a life-support machine.
Andrews was rushed to the GPHC following initial treatment at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre. This was after she was chopped multiple times by her child’s father Ian English at her mother’s home, Swan Village, Soesdyke-Linden Highway on Tuesday. According to reports, English had accused Andrews of infidelity and became enraged after she refused to return home with him from her mother’s residence; Andrews had gone to her mother’s home to seek refuge after a heated altercation with English. After committing the heinous act, English fled the scene to a wooded area where he hanged himself.

Vernita Andrews, sister-in-law of the seriously wounded woman, told the Guyana Chronicle on Wednesday afternoon that medical professionals had to abort the emergency surgery late on Tuesday night because the patient’s blood pressure was very high. As such, her condition has worsened and she was placed on life support; she is unconscious and unresponsive.

Relatives, including her mother Janet Domingo, were at the GPHC late Wednesday night hoping their loved one’s condition would improve.

English and Andrews had been living together for the past four years but he was married with eight children, the youngest being eight months old; Andrews has six children of her own, one of whom was sired by the deceased.

Janet Domingo, Andrews’ mother, tried to save her daughter but she was hit twice by English, who had a cutlass and pushed her down on a chair after which he fired the first chop. It was then the elderly farmer began begging him to leave her alone and she escaped.

She ran out the house and alerted neighbours, who rushed Andrews to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre.