The Tribune

By RASHAD ROLLE

Tribune Staff Reporter

rrolle@tribunemedia.net

A HARROWING assault of a morning jogger has left the victim and her husband with a warning to Bahamians not to go jogging alone, even in crowded areas.

With his Siberian Huskie by his side, Reginald Fox, 71, found his wife, Linda Fox, 53, lying on a sidewalk with blood streaming down her nose and lip yesterday morning in the vicinity of the Sidney Poitier Bridge.

They were taking their morning jog, although Mr Fox was well behind his wife at the time of the incident.

Mrs Fox told The Tribune she was heading toward Montagu Beach when she alleged a man in a black jogging suit, his head covered by a hoodie, attacked her.

“He was walking towards me,” she said, her nose covered in bandage strapped on by staff at Doctors Hospital. “When I saw that, I went on the opposite side of the sidewalk and when I moved, he moved over and kept coming after me. I then knew I was in trouble.

“He grabbed me in my front and I swung around to elbow him and that’s when he pushed me to the ground and ran off.”

Although she had a bag, the man stole nothing from her, she said.

“When he ran off, there was a guy coming towards me and another one coming from behind me,” she said. “The other walkers we know and I think that might have frightened him off.”

The two walk in the area every morning, but Mrs Fox said she will never again do so unless someone is by her side. Mrs Fox damaged the cartilage in her nose and also injured her knees and elbows.

“You hear about violence but you never think it’s going to happen to you and then it does and it kind of wakes you up to reality of what we are living with right now,” she said, her eyes watery.

Mr Fox said he wished his wife had got a better description of her attacker, so he could have gone “looking for him”.

“The danger is despite vehicles passing in the area, nobody bothered to stop,” he said, noting that there were lots of walkers and cars nearby.