WHAT began as a Thursday night ‘hang’ outside a fish shop at Hadfield and John streets in Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown almost ended fatally for 33-year-old Mark Waldron and his brother and a cousin.
Waldron is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital, nursing multiple stab wounds to his face, inflicted inches away from his windpipe and above his left eye, and recuperating from a gaping wound which almost cost him his right hand.
These are the injuries inflicted on Mark Waldron’s face
The wounded man recalled that he and his party were standing at the side of the road next to an icebox when a car drove by and pinned his left foot so that he was unable to move. He called out in pain to the driver, who could not immediately drive off because the place was congested and another car was blocking his movement.
Waldron said he was still writhing in pain when two men, not knowing his plight, started shouting at him to “Move out the way!” He said he was just going to open his mouth to let them know what was happening when one of them broke a bottle and dealt him multiple stabs to the face and a gaping wound to his right arm, which caused the tissues to protrude frightfully. When the blood started to spurt, the men bolted, leaving the injured man behind; but his brother and cousin took him to the hospital, where he was treated and admitted.
But even though Waldron’s brother and cousin reported the matter to the police, no rank has as yet visited him in hospital to take a statement.
(By Shirley Thomas)