– following brutal cutlass attack by her ‘child father’

THE mother of six who was brutally chopped multiple times to the neck by her live-in partner, who took his own life by hanging, is on the road to recovery, say relatives.

Malicia Andrews is still a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where she is said to be out of danger and has since been warded in the female surgical section of the institution.

According to a relative, Carmelita, the 31-year-old is responsive and is fully aware of the circumstances that have led to her hospitalisation; but she is in a lot of pain which is accompanied by high fever.

Following her successful surgery to mend the cutlass-inflicted wounds to her neck, Andrews has been responding well to treatment and medical professionals are optimistic she will make a full recovery.

Doctors, so far, were able to re-attach two of three fingers which were chopped off from one of her hands and both her ears have since been sutured, as well.

Last month, Andrews received multiple chop wounds to the neck which almost severed her head from her body. She was taken to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre after which she was referred to the GPHC.

A day later, after surging blood pressure was controlled and she was placed on a life support machine, a surgical operation was performed and she was placed in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Andrews had left her home after a row with her ‘child father’, 39-year-old Ian English with whom she has a three-year-old child. English had reportedly accused her of being unfaithful.

The woman went to her mother’s house a short distance away and English followed. The couple then got into a heated argument when Andrews refused to return home with him; it was then that he inflicted on her multiple chop wounds, mostly on her neck. The man allegedly hanged himself following the cutlass assault.