Double Amputee Vincentian Jailed For Stabbing Wife

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, May 30, 2018 (CMC) – A Magistrate has sentenced a 54-year-old double amputee to four years in jail, after he was convicted of stabbing his wife in her chest.

Senior Magistrate, Rickie Burnett, imposed the sentence on Andrew Myers, yesterday, after he was found guilty of inflicting a 10-centimetre deep, three-centimetre wide stab wound to his wife’s upper chest, at their Buccament Bay home, last Saturday.

Monique Myers – Andrew Myer’s wife for the past 27 years – told the court that her husband had made several threats to injure her and end her life.

The man, who lost both his legs because of diabetes, told the court that his wife has repeatedly told him that she would cheat on him.

Myers pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawfully and maliciously wounding his wife.

The court heard, that on Saturday, May 26, the accused had called police in the night, claiming that he was being beaten by his wife and son.

The police responded, but found that this was not the case, but that there was an issue with the couple’s son refusing to hand over his father’s vehicle key, as Mr. Myers had requested.

The police spoke to the parties and an argument ensued between the couple. As the police were about to leave the property, they heard Mrs. Myers calling out to them and saw her coming in their direction. They observed that the woman had an injury to her chest.

She told the police officers that her husband had stabbed her with a knife, as she was passing close to his wheelchair. The police met the accused with the knife in his hand and had to wrestle with him to get it away from him. He was arrested and charged.

But in court, Myers said that since one of his legs was amputated two years ago, his wife started giving him problems, telling him that she would cheat on him and that she is only his wife “on paper”.

Myers lost his other leg last year, and he told the court that since 2018 began, his wife has been giving him problems.

Mrs. Myers told the court that her relationship with her husband has always been abusive. She said she grew up in an abusive home and had two children before she met her husband. They have two children.

The woman told the court that she stayed with her husband because of her children, adding it is a shame that in her marriage she cannot look back at any good year among the 27.

She said she has had to seek the help of the police to remove her possessions from her husband’s home, because of his abuse.

She said that her husband attacked her with the same knife before and she stayed away from their home for more than a month, and only returned after he and his sister begged her to return.

Mrs. Myers said that she agreed to return to their matrimonial home, on the condition that she and her husband would sleep in different bedrooms.

The woman said that she and her husband did not have any argument on Saturday, but he was displeased because their son took someone else, and not him, on a trip in the vehicle, to sell fish.

Before passing sentence, the magistrate informed the accused that the incident “warrants a prison sentence and that’s where you are going. Look at what you did to your wife”.