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The window which was broken during the stoning of the house early yesterday morning.
The stoning of the home of Leonard Redman and Maureen Fernandes, which took place at approximately 1:00 hour yesterday, is just another action of a gang, based in Agricola, which has been terrorizing that household for a number of years, according to the homeowners.
The rocks and stones, which were hurled at the Lot 26 Public Road McDoom home, broke windows and have effectively made the couple, Fernandes in particular, fear for their lives.
Speaking with Kaieteur News yesterday, Fernandes said that she had been threatened by members of the gang on numerous occasions. She and her husband have made “countless reports to the Ruimveldt Police Station” but no action has yet been taken.
“Every time we go there (Ruimveldt Police Station) they (police ranks) tell us to come back and give a statement,” said Redman. “Our lives have been threatened, our property has been threatened and all we are told to do is give a statement.”
Fernandes said that she has even identified the member of the gang to the police, but still nothing has been done to make them stop terrorizing her. “On a number of occasions they (gang members) have openly threatened to kill me and burn down the house,” she said.
She said that she has even gone to the school of one of the gang members, with the police, to identify him (gang member), but still nothing has come out of it.
Compounding her misery is the fact that her husband (Redman) is often not at home, since he works as a cook in the interior. Redman is usually gone for two to three months at a time, leaving Fernandes alone.
He has a number of dogs, which she said she rotates, on shifts; some are out during the day and some are out at night.
“From the time I hear the dogs; I am up, terrified, looking out of the window and wondering what is going to happen. The house was stoned on Phagwah night, when Fernandes was at home alone.
That night, she said, she called both the Ruimveldt Police Station, as well as 911, but to no avail. As the stones broke through her roof, she said that she thought she was as good as dead.
She said that from the time the stones started to rain down on her house, she thought that the sound was from automatic gunfire, since many of the gang members are apparently in possession of firearms.
Fernandes added that she and her husband are forced to spend a great deal of their money repairing the damages, which the house incurs at the hands of these gang members.
Even though the stones broke through her roof and caused considerable damage to the house, she was lucky not to be injured from the attack.
While she was not hurt by the stones, she said that living in fear had taken its toll on her body.
“I have lost so much weight,” she said, adding that her doctor told her that the reason for her weight loss is due to extreme stress.
Both she and her husband have said that they do not understand why the police will not take action against the gang, but hinted that it may be because the father of one of the boys in the gang is a police officer.
Fernandes said that the reason the gang has targeted her stems from a land dispute, which her (now deceased) neighbour had with members of the same gang. She said that she was one of the witnesses in the case, and from the time her neighbour won the case, some two years ago, her household has been targeted.
Fernandes and Redman have said that they are in total fear, thinking that they may be killed at anytime. Redman, in particular, has made appeals for the police to get involved and curtail the activities of this gang.
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