Man sets house on fire with woman inside after brutal beating

A male resident of Experiment, in Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice, Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice), is now on the run after he reportedly locked his wife in their home and set fire to a mattress.
Based on reports received, neighbours were forced to break the lock on the door to pull the injured woman, whose name was given as “Narisa”, from the building. Prior to setting fire to the house, the man, identified as “Raymond”, had badly beaten the woman. Guyana Times understands that the couple had been fighting on the streets, and the woman was reportedly cuffed, kicked and dragged through the streets, thereby sustaining injuries to her body.
“This is ongoing every day. He would be beating her, insulting her, and telling her all different kinds of things. On Saturday he was beating her and dragging her on the street,” one neighbour has said.
That neighbour explained that residents had pleaded with the suspect to desist from beating the woman, but he instead dragged her into the house and locked the door before leaving.
“We see fire inside the house, and he ride away with his bicycle and gone. He locked her in the house, and we break the padlock. Everybody rush and get her out of the house, and we out the fire and we sent her to the Police station.”
After the beating incident on Saturday evening, the Police visited the home, but the suspect denied assaulting his wife. The man has since been threatening neighbours whom he suspected had called the cops.
“Everybody knows that he sells drugs…strangers come in here to buy from him. We see people coming in with bicycle, motorbike and cars, and stop and buy from him. It is a normal thing. We talk about it because we want it to stop, but nobody is listening to us,” one resident said.