Berbice woman stabbed by husband clinging to life

A Corentyne cane harvester is dead, one day after he allegedly stabbed his wife during a domestic dispute at their Number 76 Housing Scheme home, leaving their daughter horrified.

Police said the incident occurred shortly after 13:30h on Sunday. 47-year-old Olive Thompson reportedly ran from her home in blood after she was brutally stabbed by her husband, Patrick Mahendra Singh.
Neighbours rushed to assist the injured woman and transported her to the Number 75 Public Hospital, where she was admitted in a serious condition.
One neighbour, Rupa Persaud, recounted the quietness before screams pierced the community.
“We hear screaming, but like in a far distance, so we didn’t check because it was like a lot of noise and so on, so we didn’t come out. And then after they screamed, they placed on quiet, and then we see she come out from the house. When she come out, we see the blood on her clothes, and she run over,” Persaud said.
She said as they rushed Thompson into a vehicle, Singh emerged from the yard.
“When we driving out, he ride out with the motorcycle with green substance on his skin,” she added.
At the hospital, the couple’s daughter, Chandra Singh, said her mother was bleeding and was struggling to speak.
“We didn’t allow her to talk, because she went bleeding a whole lot,” Persaud also recalled of the effort to keep Thompson calm before doctors intervened.
While the injured woman underwent treatment, the family said there was no immediate information about Singh’s whereabouts. As hours passed, relatives began searching the housing scheme themselves.
“So, what we did, we go and search for ourselves. We went with phone light. We searched from all the way around in the scheme,” Chandra Singh said.
She explained that the search continued late into the night and into Monday morning. “She said that they went and they look whole morning… she said they find him dead.”
Police later confirmed that Singh’s body was discovered near a bridge within the scheme, with his parked motorcycle nearby.
Investigators believe he ingested a poisonous substance suspected to be Gramoxone. A bottle was recovered from the area as part of ongoing investigations.
Chandra Singh said there were no visible signs earlier that morning that anything was wrong.
Meanwhile, Thompson remains hospitalised but is said to be in a stable condition as investigations continue into the alleged stabbing and the subsequent death.