Times of Suriname

Canecutter who attacked ex wife in police custody

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Warren Dennis, the canecutter who hacked off his reputed wife’s left wrist, has surrendere­d to the police. A senior police official confirmed that a brother of the suspect accompanie­d him to the Sparendaam Police Station around 18.00 hrs at.

Police sources said that the suspect had been hiding out in the Beterverwa­gting backlands. He had reportedly came out of hiding early Monday morning, but fled after some residents spotted him. The suspect, a cane cutter at Enmore Estate, attacked his reputed wife, Police Constable Alana Hazel, 28, on Sunday evening, shortly after she had visited an in-law’s home. Constable Hazel, who is stationed at the Police Officers’ Mess, Eve Leary, Georgetown was found in a trench and rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporatio­n (GPHC) in a police pick-up. She also sustained chop wounds to her face and back. A close friend said that her condition has improved. Sources who witnessed the attack said that Hazel had jumped into a trench to escape, but the suspect pursued her into the same trench and began to chop her. He reportedly fled after the woman pretended to be dead. Kaieteur News understand­s that Hazel, who resides with another man at School Street, Beterverwa­gting, left her home to visit her 12-year old son, who resides with her sister-in-law in the same village. Her attacker lived a few houses away from the sister-inlaw. Constable Hazel and the suspect have three children, but had separated, and Hazel started another relationsh­ip. Relatives of the injured Hazel said they had warned her on numerous occasions to desist from going in the yard to see her son, since ‘Warren’ resides nearby. The relatives disclosed that they even urged the mother of three to move out from the village.

(kaieteurne­ws)

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