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Teen dragged
from nightclub, throat
slashed
Police on the East Coast of Demerara are on the hunt for a
man who hauled his ex-girlfriend by her hair from a Haslington
nightspot and slit her throat, leaving her for
dead.
Minella Hackett, 18, managed to survive by using her two hands to
cushion the blow from a cutlass.
The mother of one is presently a patient at the
Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, nursing several
lacerations to her
body.
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The woman says she still fears for her life, since she has
learnt from other patients that a suspicious-looking man was
observed in the ward making checks on her.
The incident
occurred at around 01:30 hours at the popular North Point
Guinness Bar, at Haslington, East Coast Demerara.
Although
she is enduring severe pain, Hackett related her story to this
newspaper in the hope that it will galvanise swift police
action to capture her assailant.
She told Kaieteur News
yesterday that she and her ex-boyfriend severed a relationship
about four months ago, a move which obviously angered
him.
Since then, the man has been visiting her house
begging to renew the relationship, but Hackett has constantly
refused his advances, angering the man even more.
Hackett
said that, early yesterday morning, she was dancing with
another man when her ex-boyfriend approached her and demanded
a dance.
She, however, paid him no mind.
While leaving
the nightclub in the company of another male, the man again
approached Hackett.
“He said: ‘Why you doing this to me?’
so I say: ‘I ain’t doing nothing to you; we break up couple
months ago’,” Hackett related.
She said the man immediately
grabbed her by her hair and dragged her out of the
nightspot.
The man then pulled out a cutlass, but he was
immediately surrounded by several other men, who saw what was
happening and attempted to go to her defence.
However, the
spurned lover reportedly held the cutlass to Hackett’s neck
and warned the men not to intervene, threatening to slit the
woman’s throat.
“He tell them don’t come close or else he
gonna cut my neck,” the woman told this newspaper.
By this
time she was on the ground, and every time she tried to run
away, the man kept pulling her back by her hair.
The man
became incensed and proceeded to slit Hackett’s throat, and
then continued to chop her about her body.
Onlookers could
only stand idly by and watch as the man hacked away at
Hackett.
At last, one of them who was armed with a piece of
wood attacked the young woman’s assailant, forcing him to run
away.
“I thought I would have died. Right there I said to
myself: ‘Oh God, I dead’,” Hackett recalled.
She was picked
up and taken to the Cove and John Police Station, where she
remained for about 30 minutes, waiting for an ambulance to
transport her to the Georgetown Hospital.
“I wish if they
find this guy and jail him, because I don’t want to make up no
story. He threatened me about three times before he did what
he did now. I have two reports at the station for him
already,” she said.
Hackett believes that the attack
stemmed from her ex-boyfriend’s suspicions that she would
leave the country to join her fiancé in the Bahamas.
“If I
didn’t bar with my hands, my whole guggle pipe woulda cut and
I woulda dead. All my fingers nearly cut off. This is unfair.
It’s not like he catch me giving him blow. He just wilfully do
it because he can’t get me,” Hackett told this
newspaper.
She said that she now has to be very careful,
since she believes that when her assailant finds out that she
is still alive, he will want to harm her.
“I am fearful for
my life, because some lady say she saw a guy come up and
staring at me, making cell phone call. I really want the
police to catch him. I am not making up any story,” Hackett
insisted
Monday, October
13, 2008
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