Venezuelan brothers attack, chop fisherman to head

A 17-year-old fisherman was on Monday brutally chopped to the head by three Venezuelan brothers at Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara (WCD).
The injured youth has been identified as Navindra Bharat, a fisherman of B Cornelia Ida.

According to information received, on the day in question, the three suspects were physically abusing their sister-in-law, who sought refuge in the victim’s yard, but was sent away by the victim’s mother – Shelly Rasheed.
“We don’t understand how they are talking, so in light of them beating her on the street, she passed and saw me on my veranda sitting down, and she decided to come in. When she came in now, I said to her, ‘Girl, go out and collect your children them’, because she has three small children.”
She continued, “Eventually, she came out of the yard, and she left, and she walked away, and she didn’t collect her children them. The brothers-in-law them walking behind her, and they started cursing my son and me.”

According to the teen’s mother, later that day, her son left home and went a few houses away for physical therapy, and after that, he was standing at the street corner with some friends when the suspects attacked and assaulted him.
“Now, they came from behind him, because they saw him sitting down there, and they came from behind him, and one snatched he and pushed him to a fence. Another one started chopping him in his head while another one had a bicycle chain and started lashing him, and he didn’t get to move. The four other boys that went there, they started running.”
She continued, “My daughter-in-law went at the gate stand up, and she saw and started running, going and started hollering, and then they ran away, but he had already chopped him up. He started walking coming up, and by the time he reached in front, he collapsed.”
A short while after, Bharat regained consciousness and was picked up and rushed to the Leonora Cottage Hospital, where he was treated before being transferred to the West Demerara Regional Hospital.
He was further transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he was treated and sent away.
The grieving mother stated that her son has suffered a fractured skull and is now out of a job. According to the woman, her son was the sole breadwinner.
“I don’t know what is going to happen, because he is my breadwinner. I have he and two other small ones and myself and all of us doing fishing work. He out of a job, I out of a job, and I don’t know what is going to happen.”
The single mother said that she was now fearful for her life and was hoping that the perpetrators be swiftly brought to justice.
“Yesterday afternoon (Wednesday), the Police came to do their investigations, and just as the Police went, they came and started again. They catch my daughter and beat her up. I called and called the station and begged them to send back the Police, and onto now, the Police have not come.”
Police in a subsequent release noted that investigations were ongoing. (Shemar Alleyne)