Joseph Taylor entertaining spectators at a cricket match at the Providence Stadium in 2007. (picture by Vince Ramcharran)

Well-known cricket and Mashramani mascot, Joseph Taylor, who four months ago hammered his reputed wife, on Monday committed suicide, just days after he was freed on a charge of felonious wounding.

Taylor,44,drank a mixture of poison after calling his partner of 13 years- Eureka Garraway- and telling her to collect her furniture before wishing her good bye because she would not see him again. He was also a phone vendor on the Regent Street pavement outside Broadway Fashions.

Garraway told Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com) that after Taylor was freed last Thursday because she declined to lead evidence against him, she left for Linden to “cool my head.”

“We were still together and I forgive him and I show him that I would  make him walk free and God got to judge him,” she told Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com).

She said an Indian man later called her, saying that Taylor was in possession of a bottle of poison at his Prashad Nagar home and was threatening to drink it. He subsequently ingested the substance and was rushed to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Taylor had hammered Garraway’s head and face on April 4, rendering her intermittently unconscious in a city hospital for several days. She had received several stitches.

She said she had to seek police assistance to obtain a few pieces of clothing that Taylor had been preventing her from collecting.

Garraway said since her arrival in Linden he had been calling her repeatedly, telling her that he could not afford for their more than one decade old relationship to end.

Neighbours later called her saying that Taylor’s brother and other relatives had allegedly fetched away all the furniture.