A woman who claimed she was attacked by her former husband with a seven-inch knife refused to testify against him yesterday because she depended on him for financial help to support their son. Tricia Anthony, 25, received injuries across her throat and lost use of her fingers to her right hand during an incident in 2009. She also sustained lacerations to her chest.
As she took the witness stand to testify against Trevor Creft, who is charged with attempting to murder her, the woman said she no longer wished to pursue the matter. Justice Maria Wilson, sitting the San Fernando Third Criminal Court, told the witness that was not her decision to make and subsequently deemed Anthony a hostile witness.
Anthony insisted she could not recall the incident on June 19, 2009 in which she was injured. Even when State attorney Mauricia Joseph showed her and read her evidence from the testimony she had given at the Siparia Magistrates’ Court during the preliminary inquiry into the matter and her statement to the police, Anthony insisted she could not remember.
She admitted one of the reasons she did not want to continue with the matter was because she depended on Creft for support for their son financially and otherwise. Anthony receives a disability grant because of the injury to her right hand which left her unable to move her fingers. In her evidence, Anthony admitted she left Creft and moved in with her mother.
However, she could not recall saying that Creft was abusive and would hit her. She also said she could not recall that on the day of the incident Creft came to her mother’s house to get $100. In the magistrates’ court, Anthony had testified when she went to give him the money Creft attacked her with a seven-inch knife. She claimed she grabbed the knife, he pulled it away and tried to cut her neck.
Anthony had said he held her in a chokehold and tried to stab her in her chest. She said she also got a vertical cut on her throat. Anthony said all she could remember before blacking out was the knife going through her neck. She spent two weeks at hospital. She was asked by Joseph to show the jury the scars to her neck which she did.
Anthony was cross examined by Creft’s attorney Herbert Charles. The matter will continue tomorrow.