Man pleads guilty to brutally chopping woman

A forty-two-year-old former cane cutter, Warren Dennis has admitted to brutally chopping a woman, severing her left hand from the wrist. Dennis, formerly of Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was indicted for the offence of attempted murder before Demerara High Court Judge Simone Morris-Ramlall.
He admitted that on April 23, 2017, in the county of Demerara, he wounded the woman, who was a Police Constable at the time, with intent to commit murder.
Dennis, who has been on remand for the past five years, will be sentenced on March 31 following the presentation of a probation report in his favour and a victim impact statement.
On the day in question, the woman, then 28, was making her way to give her son his school supplies when she was attacked by a cutlass-wielding Warren with whom she shares several children. The incident occurred at Quamina Street, Beterverwagting.

It was reported that he chased her into a nearby trench and chopped her mercilessly, severing her left hand from the wrist. Following the attack, Dennis made good his escape but was later handed over to the Police by his brother.
Meanwhile, earlier this month, a man who had previously served 17 years in prison for killing his wife was handed a 14-year jail sentence for brutally chopping a woman he met shortly after his release from the correctional facility.
Neil Archer, a 49-year-old former cane harvester, formerly of Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara (WCD), was arraigned before Demerara High Court Judge Simone Morris-Ramlall and admitted that on October 19, 2016, in the county of Demerara, he unlawfully and maliciously wounded the woman with intent to murder her.
The court heard that Neil Archer was sentenced to 17 years’ imprisonment on July 25, 2005, for unlawfully killing Shevon Archer, his wife and the mother of his children, whom he stabbed several times to her neck on July 5, 2003.
Reports state that on the day in question, the woman had gone to Archer’s home and accused him of scandalising her name. He had told the court that the woman pulled a knife on him, and he took it away from her and stabbed her to her neck.
He had been indicted for the capital offence of murder but opted to plead to the lesser count of manslaughter. Archer was released from prison on July 9, 2016.
And while armed with a cutlass on the night of October 19, 2016, he attacked this other woman while she was asleep, chopping her to her neck, hand, back, and other parts of her body. She was saved from Archer’s wrath by her son. During that altercation, several of the woman’s fingers were severed.

Given the severity of her injuries, the victim has been unable to ply her profession as a cook, since she has been unable to fully use her hands.
Meanwhile, in 1997, Archer was given two seven-year prison sentences for attempted murder and wounding with intent respectively; but since the sentences ran concurrently, he had spent only seven years in jail. He reportedly committed these offences against another woman.