Woman hacked to death over text

By Shabna Ullah | Wednesday, October 15, 2008 

- mother also chopped

A 23-year-old mother of one of PNC Dam, D’ Edward Village, West Berbice was brutally hacked to death around 5 pm yesterday after she objected to a text message her husband had received.

The woman, Trevlyn Nicholson bled to death on the dam close to her home. Her mother, 48-year-old Rolyn Alexander who witnessed the incident and tried to intervene was also severely chopped.

Alexander was rushed to the Fort Wellington Hospital and immediately transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
According to reports, the suspect, Andy Nicholson first hit the woman behind her neck with a garden fork before hacking her several times with a chopper. He then chopped Alexander on her forehead and other parts of her body.

The dead woman’s 16-year-old sister, Alexis Kingston told Stabroek News that she was not around at the time but learnt that the two had gone to the sea-dam to bring home their cattle.

She said the murder reportedly occurred because of a text message that the suspect had received on his cell phone which read, “[name], I still love you.”

Persons who witnessed the incident said that Nicholson confronted him about the message and a heated argument ensued.
The suspect then ran home and grabbed the fork and the chopper. The man then proceeded to end the life of the woman whom he had been married to for only four months even as persons looked on helplessly.

Reports are that the woman had tried desperately to run to safety but she fell.
Before being married, the two had shared a common-law relationship for about four years and since then Nicholson was constantly being abused. A cousin, 18-year-old Showin who lived in the same house said that whenever the two had an argument he would stand between them so as to prevent the suspect from hitting her. This newspaper was there when Showin arrived at the scene and started to scream. He even attempted to lift the body off the dam and had to be restrained by the police. A large crowd of curious residents had gathered at the scene and had to be constantly told by the police not to go too close.

Meanwhile relatives told this newspaper that on several occasions the man had threatened to kill her and end his life and they were not surprised that he had made good on one part of his threat so far.

They had pleaded with the woman to leave him and she had finally made up her mind to do so and move to Georgetown with her son.

Vowed
Meanwhile, bandaged, bruised and praying under her breath Rolyn was wheeled into the Georgetown Public Hospital last night shortly after 8 pm. The blood-soaked bandage wrapped around her head was foremost on her mind when Stabroek News spoke with her sometime after. She was worried that her injuries may be more serious than they appear.

Doctors listed her condition as stable at the hospital last night and she had been conscious since leaving Fort Wellington hospital. Ac-cording to a neighbour, who accompanied her to the city, she spoke all the way down “talking mostly about she dead girl”.

The image of her daughter slumped on the ground and the man hacking away at her haunted Alexander as she recounted the grim details of what transpired. She said the couple’s union had been plagued by a series of domestic spats, but that nothing prepared her for last night.

“Ah watch he chopping me daughter in she head and slashing she neck and ah freeze for a minute before rushing over fuh help she”, the woman recounted in tears. She took a few seconds to calm down then started talking again, recounting how it all started in the afternoon with a row.

She said the couple was quarreling intensely and that she only received word of it sometime after the row had erupted. Alexander decided to go over to the home and talk with them both, but when she arrived the row had deepened. Still, she tried reasoning with the couple to stop the fighting.

According to her, everything happened quickly and in a matter of minutes the man was armed and attacking her daughter. Alexander related that she was so stunned at how fast the man was moving, and also that everything was unfolding before her 5-year-old grandson.

But without thinking she rushed over and threw herself in the middle of it all. She said the man dealt her a few chops then turned his attention to her daughter a second time hacking away on her “again and again”.

“Is ma hand and foot he tek from me and I had to watch, he mek he watch”, she said shaking her head.
She spoke often during the interview of her grandson. Alexander vowed that she would take care of the child as her daughter cared for her. The woman also commented on how the man had only married her daughter a short while ago, and that he was always accusing her of having an affair. She said that it was one accusation after another.