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Thieves force woman to cancel trip to Caribana
Frederick Persaud and his wife Evelyn.
Evelyn Persaud, of Lancaster, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara, was scheduled to leave Guyana for Canada next week and had already secured some of her treasured possessions, which she planned to take with her.
But thieves put paid to that idea when they raided her home early yesterday morning and carried away, $40,000 in local currency, US$1,000, CAN$500 and $2M in jewellery.
Persaud and her husband, Frederick, operate an off license liquor shop which is located in the lower flat of their two-storey house.
“I really don’t want to go no more,” the woman told this newspaper, even as relatives tried to persuade her to travel.
The couple had retired to bed in the upper flat of the building and according to Frederick Persaud; they heard nothing to suggest that thieves were in their house.
In fact, the couple’s home is so secured with steel bars at every window of the bottom flat they felt that it was burglar proof.
But their thoughts were proven wrong by the thieves who ripped out one of the iron bar and gained entry into the building.
When Frederick Persaud awoke yesterday morning, he immediately suspected that something was wrong since both the front and back doors of the bottom flat were wide open.
Upon checking the interior, he found that it had been ransacked and there were several bags containing important documents scattered all over the floor.
“Me wake up she (wife) an she come and see all she jewellery gone. Me check fuh de money and de money gone,” Frederick Persaud told this newspaper.
The thieves must have been someone familiar with the couple’s property since they were able to find a concealed drawer where Persaud had hid the foreign currency.
The thieves also carried away several cartons of cigarettes and a DVD player.
Police visited the scene early yesterday morning and are to lift fingerprints that were left by the thieves.
Investigators are also expected to rely on a footprint to help identify the perpetrators.
Persaud recalled that around 03:00 hours he heard a noise but assumed that it must have been their two cats and did not get up to check.
“They come barefoot. Like dey climb up fuh peep inside first fuh see if anybody sleeping downstairs and then dey go to de window. Because look they lef dey footprint, and dem hand print pon de wall. Fuh lose so much thing is hard because look how hard you gat fuh wuk fuh get it,” Frederick Persaud told this newspaper.
“Since I small I had the jewellery; everything they took away,” his wife lamented.
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