Handyman’s hand severed in attack

Sascha Wilson

Senior Reporter

sascha.wilson@guardian.co.tt

A 65-year-old man’s hand has been severed following a brutal knife attack at a hotel in Marabella on Sunday night.

Keron Williams was being treated at the San Fernando General Hospital up to late yesterday for wounds to his hands, buttocks and head.

He underwent emergency surgery to reattach his right hand from the wrist. Williams and his attacker both live at the hotel.

Speaking from his hospital bed yesterday, Williams, a handyman, said he pays no rent in exchange for maintaining the hotel.

The suspect moved into the hotel about a year ago. However, Williams said he was delinquent in his rent payments. He claimed the landlady told him to remove the front door to the suspect’s apartment room on Sunday.

The suspect was not home. Recalling the attack, Williams said sometime before 9 pm he was bathing when the suspect barged in and “start to pelt chop” with a black “Rambo-type” knife.

“All I see is a black thing striking. He went for my head and I ‘brakes’ with my hand, and it chop off. I get slice on the right hand (finger). I get slice on bottom.”

He said his hand fell in the bathroom. The suspect then ran off.

Williams recalled, “I was holding my hand and bawling.”

He said the police had not yet taken a statement from him.

Up to yesterday afternoon, the suspect was still on the run. Marabella police are investigating.

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