Man pleads guilty to chopping pregnant woman

Richard Mohammed, resident of a Pomeroon community in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), has pleaded guilty to chopping a 23-year-old pregnant woman, severing several of her fingers in the process.
Initially indicted for the offence of attempted murder, the 31-year-old has opted to plead guilty to the offence of felonious wounding, and is slated to be sentenced by Justice Jo-Ann Barlow on April 7 in the Essequibo High Court.
State Counsel Tiffini Lyken is appearing for the prosecution, while Mohammed is being represented by Attorney-at-Law George Thomas.
Mohammed has admitted that on March 25, 2021, in the county of Essequibo, he unlawfully and maliciously wounded the woman. It was reported that, on the day in question, Mohammed and the woman were engaged in a heated argument,
during which he armed himself with a chopper and dealt her several chops about her body, including to her head. The young woman was six months pregnant at the time, and
several of her fingers were reportedly severed in the process. Persons in the community went to the woman’s aid and rushed her to the hospital.
After chopping the woman, Mohammed also set a house on fire, but was later arrested and prosecuted.
It was only on Monday that former cane cutter 42-year-old Warren Dennis 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 Justice 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 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 the cutlass-wielding Dennis. The incident occurred at Quamina Street, Beterverwagting, ECD.
It was reported that Dennis chased the woman 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 had 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), when arraigned before Demerara High Court Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall, admitted that on October 19, 2016, in the county of Demerara, he unlawfully and maliciously wounded the woman with intent to murder her.
While armed with a cutlass on the night of October 19, 2016, he attacked the woman while she was asleep, and chopped 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 that woman’s fingers were severed.
Archer had, in 1997, been given two seven-year prison sentences for attempted murder and wounding with intent respectively, but since those sentences had run concurrently, he had spent only seven years in jail. He had reportedly committed offences against another woman, and had been given those terms of incarceration (G1).