ADIM MAYHEW died an agonising and gruesome death.
The 30-year-old man of Thomas Street, Port-of-Spain was found by his father Franklyn on Thursday night along Basilon Street in the capital — barely alive — shot in both legs and with his throat slit from ear to ear.
The grieving man yesterday told Newsday that had persons acted when his son was attacked, he might have survived. However he died shortly after being brought to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital.
Speaking with reporters at the Forensic Science Centre in St James yesterday, Mayhew said he was returning home from a trip to Tobago when he was told that his son was lying in a drain on Basilon Street.
“A woman told me he was in the drain bleeding away,” Mayhew said. “I asked if she was joking and she said ‘no...go and see’.
I just turned around and went down the road. I saw him lying on the ground, alive, but gasping for breath. When I came closer, I saw a big chop wound or a slit to his throat and my boy’s throat was sliced open. The wound was gaping,” he cried.
Using his previous experience as an employee in the Accident and Emergency Department of the city hospital, Mayhew tried his best to staunch the bleeding from the slit in his son’s throat while at the same time trying to contact the emergency services.
The grieving man yesterday told Newsday that had persons acted when his son was attacked, he might have survived. However he died shortly after being brought to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital.
Speaking with reporters at the Forensic Science Centre in St James yesterday, Mayhew said he was returning home from a trip to Tobago when he was told that his son was lying in a drain on Basilon Street.
“A woman told me he was in the drain bleeding away,” Mayhew said. “I asked if she was joking and she said ‘no...go and see’.
I just turned around and went down the road. I saw him lying on the ground, alive, but gasping for breath. When I came closer, I saw a big chop wound or a slit to his throat and my boy’s throat was sliced open. The wound was gaping,” he cried.
Using his previous experience as an employee in the Accident and Emergency Department of the city hospital, Mayhew tried his best to staunch the bleeding from the slit in his son’s throat while at the same time trying to contact the emergency services.
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