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Granny, 72, fights off AK-47 bandits
“I would’a leave them walking with a white stick for the rest of
their lives”
Two bandits, one armed with an AK-47 rifle, were no match for a 72-year-old re-migrant who forced them to flee empty handed by dousing one of them with pepper spray.
The bandits had attacked the home of Euline Hinds and her husband, Desmond, at 35 Section C Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara at about 22:30 hours on Wednesday.
Police believe that the bandits are the same persons who have been carrying out a series of robberies in the area. Euline Hinds was in no mood to be relieved of what she had toiled so hard for after years in the ‘cold’.
Relating the sequence of events, Hinds said that she was in her downstairs living room watching the television programme ‘American Idol’, while her husband dosed off in a sofa next to her.
The next things she knew, two bandits, one with a rifle and another with an iron bar, had entered their home.
The bandit with the gun pointed it to her sleeping husband’s chest, causing him to awake with a start.
According to Hinds, her husband held on to the gun and tried to wrest it from the bandit but his accomplice struck him twice in the head with the iron bar.
However, the pensioner gamely held unto to the gun.
Mrs. Hinds then grabbed a tin of pepper spray that was nearby and sprayed it into face of the bandit who held the iron bar.
“He started to shout, and stumbled out of the house. The other one with the gun managed to free himself and he too ran away. I ran behind them, but they got away,” Hinds said.
The woman explained that had she managed to get the temporarily blind bandit to the ground, he would have been a dead man.
“I was not afraid. I ran behind them. I would’a leave them walking with a white stick for the rest of their lives,” the brave 72-year-old said.
“I left this country long before they born and all them snow and cold I take. I would not allow them to take it away. They did not give something to keep,” Mrs. Hinds told this newspaper.
“Once you got something in your hand, you must aim to their eyes,” she advised.
She said that both bandits were wearing black clothing.
Neighbours reported, later, that they saw the men enter an abandoned house lot, apparently for the injured bandit to wash his eyes.
They were unaware at the time that the men had attempted a robbery nearby.
The police were subsequently summoned and a massive investigation launched.
The attack occurred despite the police announcement that they had established a special unit at the Vigilance Police Station to track down the perpetrators, who they believe are responsible for several robberies.
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