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.
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