The 16-year-old schoolboy who received injuries to his head, allegedly at the hands of a Venezuela-born teen in an attack at Post Office Street, Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara (WBD), has reportedly been suffering headaches over the past few days.
The West Demerara schoolboy who was attacked at Sisters Village, seen with injuries last month
He had claimed that on September 18, while walking home, the foreign-born youth, also 16, struck him to the head with a wooden object, which caused him to be briefly hospitalised. He was treated and received stitches and was sent away, while his attacker was released on $10,000 bail on charges that he unlawfully wounded the schoolboy.
Guyana Times caught up with the West Demerara lad over the weekend, who disclosed that since the attack, he has been suffering periodic headaches.
“It does be usually around midday and it would last throughout the day. Sometimes I can’t focus,” the WBD teen explained. The attack occurred on Monday, September 18, and he has missed a full week of classes.
The two lads appeared at an in-camera hearing at the Wales Magistrate’s Court on September 21.
Reports were that the Venezuelan teen, a supermarket attendant, waited as the schoolboy was passing and reportedly hit him to his head before running away from the scene. However, the foreign-born youth, who is of Guyanese heritage, denied the allegation when he appeared in court. He contended that the accuser was in fact the aggressor.
This publication was told last month that the wounding stemmed from a personal matter whereby a Guyanese cousin of the Venezuelan youth and a cousin of the schoolboy shared a rocky relationship and would often engage in heated confrontations.
There had been a spat whereby family members of both youths physically sparred. It was believed that this is what led to the altercation between the two young males. They are scheduled to return to court on November 2.
