– fails in bid to kill wife after rejection

By Nafeeza Yahya

A young Black Bush Polder man is dead and his wife hospitalised after their abusive relationship took a turn for the worst on Tuesday morning.
Amar Jeffery and his wife, Mohamed Sherry Satnarine, both 29, and of
Mibicuri, Black Bush Polder, East Berbice, Corentyne, had been married
for more than six years and have two children together, ages five and six.
On Tuesday morning, the two children were almost orphaned after Jeffery consumed a poisonous substance and then proceeded to force the substance down the throat of his wife in front of their children.
As the woman resisted, he dealt her several blows while choking her in his bid to
get her to comply. Her screams alerted neighbours and passersby who
came to the woman’s rescue but, by then, he had managed to get some of the
substance in the woman’s mouth.

Both were rushed to the nearby Mibicuri Hospital where Jeffery succumbed shortly while doctors are keeping a close eye on Sherry, whose mouth, face and tongue were scorched by the poisonous substance.

Guyana Chronicle understands that the couple, since the beginning of their union, had marital issues reportedly stemming from the husband’s jealousy and refusal to financially support his wife.
The labourer, despite being one who consumes neither alcohol nor smoke,
was extremely jealous and often accused his wife of being unfaithful
to him and would verbally and physically abuse her.

Fearing for her life, the woman left the relationship several times and
moved out with her children but returned after Jeffery pleaded and
promised to change.  Realising he was not going to change, Sherry
decided to move on with her life and was living with someone else.

Eventually, after several weeks, the person she was in a relationship with decided to end the relation and called Jeffrey to pick her up, despite her protests, on Monday.

The husband and a neighbour showed up and brought Sherry and the two
children to their Mibicuri home but Sherry asked to spend the night at the neighbour’s home as she did not want to go home with her husband for fear of
him abusing her. The neighbour obliged and Jeffery also spent the night
at the neighbour, with the neighbours keeping a watchful eye on him.
One neighbour told this publication that Sherry had made up her mind not to go back with her husband and was going to live by her mother’s home instead.
This angered Jeffery and he decided to end his life but not before
trying to kill his wife.

“The next morning (Tuesday) Sherry get up early and went to the
station to make a report that she don’t want nothing to do with she
husband and he keep following she. When she come back and tell he she
going by she mother, he run down me step and went into the old fridge
where we does keep poison, an he try to drink it but me stop he, but he
nah loose the bottle and he seh he ok and go sit by the step,” the
neighbour related.

The neighbour added that just after 07:00 hrs, workers were passing through the street and they had to stop Jeffrey from forcing the substance into his wife’s mouth.
“He a say if you nah want me, you nah guh get nobody else. Me get frighten and me run out to call the police,” the neighbour said, relating that after the workers subdued Jeffrey, they rushed Sherry to the Mibicuri Hospital with help from the police.

Meanwhile, a few streets away, suicide claimed another victim on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Sheniza Hoosein, a mother of two. This publication understands the woman decided to end her life after she
realised her husband was unfaithful to her.

Over the years, many cases of suicide have occurred in Black Bush Polder, a primarily farming community, where pesticides are easily available to residents.