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– claims woman stabbed him three timesAfter five days of hiding out in the canefields aback of Sophia, 52-year-old Godfrey Stewart also known as Godfrey Chase, turned himself in early yesterday morning at the Turkeyen Police Station.Stewart arrived alone at the station and admitted to the brutal slaying of his reputed wife Jacqueline George, whose charred remains were pulled from her Sophia house which was destroyed by fire early last Saturday morning.Stewart’s body bore stab wounds to the neck, abdomen and chest, which he claimed was inflicted by the woman during a fight they had shortly before he set the house on fire.So dehydrated was Stewart that he collapsed shortly after arriving at the police station and had to be assisted with water by ranks on duty.He is now a patient under guard at the Georgetown Hospital where his condition is listed as critical.“He walk in and say that he is the man who kill the woman in Sophia,” a source at the Turkeyen Police Station told this newspaper.According to the source, Stewart told police that during an argument with his reputed wife, the woman picked up a knife and stabbed him three times.He said that he managed to take the knife away and retaliate. He subsequently struck the woman in the head with a piece of wood rendering her unconscious.He then set the house on fire to conceal the crime and then fled into the canefields.Early this week, police had searched the canefields after receiving information that he was hiding out there. But they failed to locate the suspected murderer.When he turned himself in yesterday, his clothes was stained with what appeared to be dried blood.Stewart told police that he decided to turn himself in because his wounds were beginning to get serious and he was in desperate need of medical attention.But his claim of being wounded by the woman is not being taken too seriously by Michelle Wiltshire, the dead woman’s daughter.Wiltshire and her sister Sharon visited the hospital yesterday to “make sure that is he.”They had to be restrained from physically attacking Stewart by hospital staff and the police guard on duty at the time.“When we go and see he,Cheap NFL Shop, he couldn’t look us in our face,” Wiltshire told Kaieteur News.She said that she does not believe that her mother had wounded the man.“If she de juk he up, he woulda bleed to death,” she argued.The source at the Turkeyen police station said that detectives could not immediately tell if Stewart’s wounds were self inflicted.According to Wiltshire, Stewart’s story does not sound authentic.She stated that neighbours had related that the couple had an argument earlier on Saturday but there was no violence involved.The neighbours said that Stewart subsequently left the house but returned later and they did not hear any commotion until they observed fire in the building.Wiltshire said that Stewart had wounded her mother on a previous occasion and was detained at the Turkeyen police station. However, for some strange reason, her mother declined to press charges.“I don’t know why me mother go and tek he out. Look wha happen to she now. The President gat fuh bring back hanging. This man kill before. Let this be the last time that a man kill he wife,” Wiltshire said.A friend of Stewart had informed this newspaper that on many occasions the murder suspect had revealed plans to kill George, but he would calm him down and Stewart would return to the woman’s house in a more sober mood.This newspaper was told that Stewart had recently sold a piece of land at Yarrowkabra and had done some extensions to the woman’s Sophia house. He had also presented her with some gold jewellery.The friend believes that the woman’s disposition angered Stewart especially since he had invested a significant amount of money on her and her property.There are reports that George had on several occasions tried to end the relationship but Stewart would convince her to remain as his reputed wife.Police are monitoring the suspect’s condition and are hoping that he recovers soon so that charges can be instituted against him.Meanwhile, Jacqueline George was buried on Wednesday. |
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