Berbice brutal stabbing: Victim’s 5-year-old son traumatised after witnessing attack on mom – grandmother

…soldier to be charged today

The West Berbice (WCB), Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) woman, who was stabbed and chopped by her fiancée on Friday and taken to hospital in a critical condition is now stable.

Police confirmed on Monday that 23-year-old Leticia Reynolds was listed as stable by the medical institution.
Reports are that on Friday evening the soldier, Philon Edwards, went home at around 17:50h and accused Reynolds of permitting her son’s father to visit during his absence. She acknowledged the visit but told him that there was no interaction between her and him.
In a release the police said the corporal became furious and grabbed a knife from the kitchen, and held it to her neck, he then allegedly instructed her son to leave the premises.
The soldier then proceeded to stab Reynolds multiple times on the left side of her face, below her left eye, on her finger, and in her right abdomen. Fearing for her life, she attempted to evade him by running around the house.
The angered man then picked up a cutlass from the kitchen and inflicted a chop wound to the woman’s neck, resulting in significant bleeding before fleeing the scene.
The injured woman’s mother, Carolyn Carter said there were six wounds to her daughter’s body including a stab wound under her arm, one to the abdomen and one above her left eye, which received seven sutures.
Carter, who lived in a separate apartment said the soldier and her daughter had a wonderful relationship.

“They were living very loving. On Friday she went and buy ration [groceries]; he go and collect the ration and bring it home and they were so cool inside…”
While the police reported that the soldier, who eventually turned himself in, was angered by the visit of the father of his fiancée’s son, the injured woman’s mother said there were no indications to prove that he was upset over the visit.
“I am grateful to God that she is still alive today. Her son is left traumatised; he is not eating not drinking… He was there when his step-father was attacking his mother and he was begging him not to kill his mother and the stepfather sent him away and he ran and bumped over the fence and called the neighbour,” she explained.
Meanwhile, the soldier who walked into the Weldaad Police Station identified himself as a Corporal of the Guyana Defense Force gave his name as Philon Edwards, and admitted that he had wounded the Reynolds.
He is expected to appear in court today on an attempted murder charge. (G4)