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Man beaten to death with hammer over stolen cell phone

Oct 27, 2008 News

Police are looking for a man who beat a 54-year-old vendor to death with a hammer yesterday, after accusing the victim of stealing his cell phone.
Harold Gobin, of Montrose, East Coast Demerara, was attacked and repeatedly struck with a hammer by a man who had broken into his home, at around 06:00 hrs.
He succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
Eyewitnesses said that the perpetrator was a frequent visitor to the community.
The cell phone reportedly disappeared on Saturday while the suspect was at a nearby beer garden.
Shan Gobin, the victim’s son, said that he was sleeping in the hallway of the family’s home when someone wrenched the front door open.
He said that a man, whom he recognized as a frequent visitor to the area, approached him and asked for his father.
Gobin said that he told the man that his father was in the verandah. According to him, the man, who was armed with a hammer, then went to his father and said: “Where me phone deh?”
“My father say he don’t know about any phone, and he (the intruder) start lash he.”
“I say, ‘Why you hitting my father?’, and he said, ‘You better shut yuh mouth, before I put me hand on you.’    ”
The intruder continued to rain blows on the elder Gobin; and his son, fearing for his own safety, fled from the house with his wife. However, he remained in the yard, where he could hear his father’s screams.
“He was screaming ‘What you hitting me for, I ain know ‘bout no phone,’ ” the son recalled.
The son estimated that the attack lasted about five minutes. He said that eventually the man left the premises, but warned that he was giving the father up to noon to produce the phone.
Gobin said that he went to his father, who was lying in the verandah with injuries to his face, chest and arms.
He said that despite his injuries, his father at first declined to go to the hospital.
However, after the pain intensified, the victim pleaded with his relatives to send for an ambulance.
Relatives then took the injured man to the GPHC by taxi, where he succumbed while receiving treatment.
The victim’s son insists that his father did not steal the suspect’s phone. He also said that he knew his father’s killer, since the man was a frequent visitor to the area.
The suspect was still at large up to press time.

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