Former national heavyweight boxer Wendell Joseph, 68, and his wife Erica, 56, escaped serious harm yesterday after an intruder tossed what appeared to be scratch bombs into their tent at the Queen's Park Savannah (QPS) at about 2.10 am.
Joseph, an amputee, said she was having difficulty sleeping and was sitting on the mattress when she heard a noise outside the tent.
"I turned around and saw that someone was tugging on my wheelchair but it was tied. Then I saw this man wearing a yellow jersey and I start to beg him not to do me anything."
At that point, Joseph said, the man threw a small lighted device, which exploded within seconds, scorching her mattress and sheet.
"I also got scorched on my hand. Why do I have to go through this? What I do to deserve this?" Joseph asked.
She also queried why the Government and the Housing Development Corporation were taking so long to allocate the couple a ground-floor apartment that is equipped for the disabled.
"Would they wait for someone with a machine gun to come and shoot us up? All I am asking for is a proper home, suitable for me."
Yesterday marked 34 days since the Josephs moved into the QPS.
She and her husband have been relocated five times to different apartments belonging to the HDC across the country since 1998 but say none was suitable.
This is not the first time the couple have opted to live in the Savannah. In 2004, they moved there and sought help via the media after their home was destroyed by fire.
Belmont police visited the couple yesterday afternoon and are investigating.