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Sep 21, 2013 News
…calling for justice to be served
Anettia Douglas who lost her home in a fire on Thursday evening is pleading with the respective authorities to capture her husband who she believes is responsible for her loss. Godfrey Douglas was up to yesterday on the run after allegedly setting fire to the house he shared with Anettia Douglas.
The woman who lived at 548, Recht-Door-Zee, La Parfaite Harmonie said that the incident occurred because she was in constant confrontation with her husband over what she describes as his ‘untruthful’ ways.
She said on the day of the fire her husband picked her up after work as was the norm but left her at the corner of North and Camp Streets, claiming that he was called back to his place of employment. She requested to accompany him but he refused, Douglas said.
Suspecting that something was amiss Douglas said she went to his workplace and, as she suspected, discovered that he was not there.
Upset, the woman said that she proceeded to call him to ascertain his whereabouts. “When I call he, he tell me how he deh in Alberttown breaking a lock for a head mistress who used to work at de school. I turn and tell he why he so (lying) and he hang up the phone.”
Douglas said that when her husband finally came to pick her up, she refused to accompany him home, at which point the man told her that he was “going and drink some beer.”
The woman said that she followed the man to the rum shop where an intense argument broke out between them. It ended with the husband riding off with his motorcycle leaving her to make her way home. The woman said that upon reaching home she confronted her husband and told him she doesn’t want him anymore and that she wanted a divorce.
Douglas said immediately after her husband choked her and accused her of “wanting the house that he sweated to build.”
He then proceeded to open the wardrobe and take out all his belongings and told her that he is going away.
The woman said that she then left for the police station to give a statement about the abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband but before she could complete the process, “two officers came in and told the sergeant that a house is on fire in La Parfaite Harmonie next to ‘Rastaman’ corner”. The woman said she instinctively knew that it was her house.
The distraught woman related that for years her husband abused her verbally and physically, telling her that he would “bruk up” or “bun down” her house during their confrontations.
She explained that she worked very hard, walking and selling perfumes and other fineries at the Parika market every day to buy her land and build her house. She said that she purchased zinc and posts and sand etc whenever she got money.
She said that her husband, prior to his stable security job, was instrumental in the building of the structure since he had knowledge in carpentry.
Douglas described her relationship as “a couple weeks of peace and then war again.” She estimated that she lost about $2 million in the fire. Douglas said that she is now fearful for her life since she is afraid that her husband might want to kill her. She is pleading with the police to catch him before she suffers fatally at his hands.
Her plea comes in the wake of an increasing number of occurrences of women being abused or killed at the hands of their significant others.
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