MALICIA Andrews, whose neck was almost severed with a cutlass by the father of her child in October 2018 during a vicious attack at her mother’s house in Swan on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway, has been discharged from the hospital.
According to her sister, Carmelita Adams, Andrews is resting at home after being discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), a month ago.

Adams told the Pepperpot Magazine that her sibling is in no position to speak to anyone but can manage to do minor things for herself and is said to be healing.
She related that Andrews is walking but cannot do much on her own yet since she is still in the healing process and the scars are fresh, but she is coping and in time will make a full recovery.

Adams said her loved one remembers almost everything that has happened and would at times talk openly about the incident and has expressed the need to “get over” what transpired.

The mother of six, who was brutally chopped multiple times to the neck and other parts of her body by the father of her child, who subsequently took his own life by hanging, is optimistic she will be able to lead a normal life once again- at least for her children.
Adams told this newspaper that Andrews’ wounds are healing on her neck and back of her head but one of her hands is in a cast because the bone was shattered when she was chopped.
She has regained some movement in her re-attached fingers which were severed and her ears have been successfully re-attached.

The incident happened when Andrews left her home after a row with 39-year-old Ian English with whom she has a three-year-old child when he accused her of being unfaithful.
The woman went to her mother’s house, a short distance away and English followed. There they had an argument which quickly turned heated when she refused to return home with him.

Janet Domingo, Andrews’ mother tried to save her daughter but she was lashed 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 to neighbours to alert them of what was happening in her house and they took Andrews to the hospital.
The chops almost severed her neck, and English after committing the act, fled into some nearby bushes and hung himself.
His body was removed late that night by undertakers in the presence of the police.

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. While, Andrews has six children, only one was fathered by the deceased.