According to family members, the  29-year-old Nigg Settlement woman, became chronically suicidal after suffering from a prolonged bout of abuse from her common law husband, who has been identified as a taxi driver.

The Guyana Guardian was reliably informed that the woman’s case of suicide attempts has been so severe and rare, that several social workers and mental health worker had to be assigned to her, with the police themselves and hospital personnel practically monitoring the woman day in and day out.

But on each occasion that the woman makes an attempt to take her own life, her husband would usually opt to leave her in whatever state she may be in until a relative or someone else that is monitoring her discovers her frothing or unresponsive.

But after her fifteenth suicide attempt a while ago, social workers hopes for her full recovery were dashed, when it was discovered that her husband was now making direct attempts to kill her.

Suddenly and ironically finding value for her life, it became a plus when the woman along with social workers gave several incriminating statements to police, which subsequently led to her husband being arrested and taken to court.

But as reported earlier by this publication, the woman made an unexpected U-turn when the matter was called before magistrate Renita Singh.

Instead of giving evidence against the man who had attempted to kill her, the woman strangely defended him and even paid a lawyer to represent her abuser’s interest.

Questioned by the Guyana Guardian on her reasons for wanting to rescue the same man who had driven her to commit suicide on at least fifteen occasions, and who recently made a direct attempt to take her life himself, the woman simply said: “I do not know”.

And even when she was specifically questioned about going back into a suicidal relationship with the man, she similarly said she did not know.

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