Female cop critical, wrist hacked off in brutal cutlass attack
– lover on the run
Police are on the hunt for a cane cutter who chopped off the left wrist of his lover, Police Constable Alana Hazel, with a cutlass last night at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara.
After the brutal attack, Constable Hazel, 28, who is stationed at the Police Officers’ Mess, Eve Leary, Georgetown was found in a trench from where she was picked up and rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) in a police pick-up.
She also sustained chop wounds to her face and back and is said to be in a critical condition.
Kaieteur News understands that the woman 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.
CHOPPED: Constable Alana Hazel
Her attacker who has been only identified as ‘Warren’ lives a few houses away from the sister-in-law.
The circumstances surrounding the chopping are still unclear. However, a friend of Constable Hazel who is also from the area, said she was at home with her son when she heard someone screaming. The woman said that when she ran out she saw ‘Warren’ with a cutlass in his hand and Constable Hazel lying in the trench.
“He (Warren) did mean to kill she. Me and my son lay down in the verandah and I heard the hollering. But by the time I reach out he did done chop she and get away. He hear he son screaming and he still chop she.”
Based on information, Constable Hazel shares three children with ‘Warren’ who is said to be in his forties. They reportedly lived together for several years during which she was allegedly subjected to physical abuse.
Her friend said that ‘Warren’ had threatened to kill the policewoman several times, but she was unaware if the woman reported the matter. 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. Prior to the incident, Warren was reportedly seen by Constable Hazel’s relatives sharpening a cutlass.