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Crystal Harrison, Star Writer
A former Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) sergeant says he has been living in fear since his 45-year-old son chopped him in his head and escaped.
Peter Williams, 78, told THE STAR he is extremely frustrated and upset that after two years the police have not been able to arrest his son.
When asked what could have caused his son to attack him, Williams explained that his son, who was also in the army, maybe got upset because in 2006 he handed him over to the JDF.
Williams is alleging that his son ran off to the United States after he was sent there to study.
However, Williams claims that after his son returned to Jamaica, he told him that he couldn't stay at his house because he would be breaking the law by harbouring a fugitive.
"He was sent to the US on a military training course and he ran off and he came back 2006. He came back with a different name and with a US passport and he told the police that he is not my son. That same year, him beat me up and I reported it to the police and told the police about him."
Williams told THE STAR that the police handed him over to the JDF.
"My son was handed over to the JDF in 2006, and the JDF punished him for running off in the US and from that I didn't see or hear from him until him attack me on Holy Thursday in 2009."
"On Holy Thursday night in 2009, after returning from church, I went to bed and about the midnight hour I felt some licks in my head, I eventually grabbed the person around the neck, by that time I recognised it was my son and I started screaming out murder. He eventually ran out the house. I was admitted unconscious at the University Hospital of the West Indies."
Meanwhile, when THE STAR made checks with the Gordon Town police, the investigating officer confirmed that a report was made to the police from 2009.
THE STAR was also informed that investigations are ongoing as the police have not been able to locate the accused son.
