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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Stabbing victim to seek counselling

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Stab­bing vic­tim Ak­il Thomas, 26, is ex­pect­ed to at­tend coun­selling ses­sions to­day.Thomas sur­vived an at­tack on June 22 while at the Co­corite Fish­ing De­pot. He was stabbed 13 times dur­ing a birth­day lime at Co­corite Fish­ing De­port. He had gone there to meet a male friend he met on the so­cial net­work­ing site Face­book.The man is be­lieved to have lured Thomas to the area, where he was joined by a gang who robbed Thomas be­fore stab­bing him and leav­ing him for dead on the shore.

Speak­ing with the T&T Guardian yes­ter­day, Thomas, who was dis­charged from the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal last week­end, said since the in­ci­dent he had not been able to sleep."Every time I close my eyes to sleep, I keep re­count­ing the in­ci­dent over and over in my head. It is a night­mare that nev­er seems to have an end. I just want to get over this and live a nor­mal life again."In the in­ter­im, I will be­gin coun­selling ses­sions in an at­tempt to help me over­come this trau­ma. I am al­so keep­ing close to God and pray­ing fer­vent­ly."Thomas is ex­pect­ed to ac­com­pa­ny po­lice to the scene of the crime as part of on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions. No one has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the in­ci­dent.


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