Berbice man attempts to strangle 60-year-old neighbour

A man is presently in police custody assisting with investigations into a break and enter and assault, which allegedly occurred on Monday morning in East Canje, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).
According to reports, Charameai Imrit, also known as ‘Lalita’, 60, of Lot 47 West Canefield, East Canje, was in bed at 02:30h when someone broke into her home. The woman later identified the intruder as one of her neighbours.
“He jump top me and put he hand on me throat and strangle me fa kill me. Me call on God and say help me to come out… Me say ‘wah me do you boy’, and he say ‘me go show you wah me go do you’ and he a choke me,” the woman recounted.
Imrit, who lives alone, said she screamed in hopes that the intruder would flee, however, her air supply was cut off when the intruder started to strangle her.
The woman explained that at that point, she knew she had to take action, or risk losing her life. “Me take me hand a dig am from he eye and then he lose me next hand and me take am and hold he private part and twist am and me start holla, hard, hard.” The man fled through a bedroom window and landed on a nearby shed, which collapsed with him.
A neighbour was alerted after hearing the screams, and when the 60-year-old Imrit told the woman that her son had broken into her home, the woman reportedly said it was a thief and not her son.
However, the traumatised woman maintains that she knows the perpetrator’s identity. “Is not thief man. Me sure a he. He squeeze up me mouth and press am up, all me mouth cut up inside; three a me teeth a shake,” she said.
Ranks from the Reliance Police Station arrived on the scene about 30 minutes later, and went to the house next door when they found the suspect in the yard playing with a brother. The Police arrested the man after they observed marks about his body. Investigations into the incident are continuing.