Chopped boy slowly recovers

DOCTORS at the Paediatric Hospital, Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EWMSC) in Mt Hope, have described nine-year-old multiple-chopping victim Keiwon Sullivan as a “fighter” who despite his near fatal injuries is expected to make a painful but full recovery.

Sullivan, a Standard Two student of the Aranjuez Government Primary School, was brought to hospital in a semi-conscious state on Thursday evening, after he was found bleeding inside an abandoned wooden house at La Resource Road, D’Abadie, by an off-duty prison officer Sullivan’s father Andy Williams told Newsday: “The doctors say is only because he is a strong boy, it look like he go make it ... but he in a lot of pain right now.” The worried father said the family had received a ransom demand of $10,000 prior to Sullivan being found in the abandoned house. “What I want to know is why the man chop up my son so. Is one thing to demand a ransom and hold the boy but something else to chop him up so. My son lucky to still be alive.” He also dismissed police investigators’ theory that the abduction and chopping may have been the result of bad blood between his family and a man over a piece of land near the Williams’ home in Bagatelle, Diego Martin.

Checks with police revealed that up to late yesterday no arrests had been made, but sources said they knew who Keiwon’s attacker was and a manhunt has been launched. PCS Sheldon Sylvester and Davidson are continuing investigations. According to police reports, at around 4 pm on Thursday, Keiwon’s relatives received a telephone call telling them that the boy had been kidnapped. An hour later, an off-duty prison officer on his way home, heard moans coming from an abandoned house and on checking, saw Keiwon lying in a pool of blood with chop wounds about his head and body. Williams told Newsday his son is warded in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital and surgery may have to be done on his jaw.