ANTHONY Giddings, better known as “Big head”, was fatally stabbed during the wee hours of the morning on Friday following an argument with his woman at Main and Pitt Streets, New Amsterdam.
Despite an early morning shower of rain, the blood stains were still in evidence on the township’s busy main thoroughfare, where he would oftentimes beg passersby for money to purchase food, or to support his drug addiction.
According to reports, the suspect, a 43-year-old woman, had often complained of being repeatedly abused by Giddings, with whom she shared an intimate relationship for over four years.
But while residents of the eastern half of Pitt Street acknowledged Giddings addiction, they said that it was he who was the abused party, and shared with the Guyana Chronicle a number of short videos of the suspect assaulting the deceased to support their claims.

Leon Boo Williams took to her facebook page to lament the Giddings’ passing, saying that regardless of his lifestyle he wasn’t a nuisance.
“He don’t pick problems; always gentle when he see a nice female, he got good words, and very helpful. Is since he hook up with she, is pure madness,” Williams concluded.
Word on the street, however, is that the acts of abuse would occur whenever Giddings drank alcohol or smoke “he li’l weed,” and that at one point the woman even suffered a broken arm during one of those assaults.
Reports are that it was just before 01:30 hours when the deceased asked the suspect to borrow her lighter so he could light a marijuana joint, and she refused, saying she didn’t have one. This was said to have caused Giddings to become annoyed, to the extent that an argument ensued, and he allegedly pulled a knife from his waist and threatened to stab her.

Word is that the woman ran out onto the roadway ostensibly to avoid a confrontation, and he must’ve followed her, as they began to fight in earnest right there in the middle of the road. Reports are that it was during this scuffle that she allegedly took the knife away from Giddings and dealt him two stabs in the chest. Eyewitnesses say that on seeing the blood, she fled the scene, running in the direction of the Central Police Station where she made a report.
Thereafter, plainclothes and uniformed ranks reportedly rushed to the scene, and assisted in transporting Giddings to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where he was seen and examined by Doctor Omapersaud, who confirmed that he’d died.
Subsequently, a bloodied wooden-handled knife was found at the scene, and the suspect has since been detained.