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Apr 06, 2013 News
A 27-year-old is now a patient in the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) – after he was reportedly beaten and chopped by the owner of a city taxi service on Thursday night and was left bleeding on the road.
Injured is Lawrence Fanfair, a father of one, of Lot 40 Costello Housing Scheme, Georgetown. He was chopped on his hand, with the wound requiring some 22 stitches. He also received a chop wound to
his abdomen.
The victim is now on a life support machine. Doctors at the health institution have since notified Fanfair’s family that he is in a critical condition. Apart from the external wounds, the man is suffering from a damaged intestine and other internal injuries.
Yesterday, at the GPHC, Fanfair’s sister, Keona told Kaieteur News that she was informed that her brother was heading home on a pedal cycle when he stopped in the vicinity of the aforementioned taxi service to talk to one of his friends.
“He was there talking and a car from the base reverse and hit my brother and apparently my brother and the driver got into a fight and the owner of the taxi service came out with a chopper and started chopping my brother,” Keona said.
The woman explained that a taxi which was passing saw her brother lying on the road in a pool of blood and took him to the hospital.
But yesterday, when Kaieteur News visited the taxi service named by the injured man’s family, the dispatcher said that no such incident occurred there. When asked to speak with the owner of the taxi service she added that he was not around.
However, this publication learnt that the police apprehended the owner for the taxi service late yesterday.
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