Ralph Ban­warie

A 32-year-old man of Prince Street, Biche has been charged with the at­tempt­ed mur­der of his for­mer wife.

Za­l­im Ho­sein, a fa­ther of three and a labour­er ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly be­fore se­nior mag­is­trate, Cheron Raphael .

Ho­sein was re­fused bail and the mag­is­trate ad­vised him to ap­ply to a Judge in Cham­ber for bail.

His next court hear­ing date was put to April 6.

Af­ter an in­ten­sive week of in­ves­ti­ga­tion led by Sgt Leon and Cpl Rique of the San­gre Grande CID who sought ad­vice from East­ern Di­vi­sion­al Le­gal Of­fi­cer Sgt Cortez, the ex 32-year-old hus­band was charged with at­tempt­ed mur­der.

Po­lice re­port­ed that he has a sim­i­lar of­fence pend­ing in court.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­port this month, Ho­sein who was armed with a cut­lass and ap­proached his wife who was seen in the com­pa­ny of a male friend walk­ing along Kow­lessor Road, Coalmine and dealt her sev­er­al chops about her head and hands.

He then made his es­cape on foot by run­ning in­to the bush­es and a few days lat­er sur­ren­dered to Rio Claro Po­lice.

The vic­tim's hands were al­most sev­ered, but doc­tors at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal per­formed emer­gency surgery and was able to save her hands.

She was ward­ed in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at the In­ten­sive Care Unit.

Po­lice said the 28-year-old moth­er of three re­mains ward­ed in se­ri­ous, but sta­ble con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal.