Bandits invade Corentyne home

Aug 25, 2009 News

– use victim to fetch loot

Bandits in Berbice resumed their nefarious operations in the Corentyne area, terrorising a family before making off with about $650,000 in cash, electrical equipment and a quantity of jewellery, on Sunday night.
The bandits, who numbered four, had targeted the home of 52-year-old spray painter, Budnarine Surattan, at Number One Road, Corentyne, Berbice at about 19:30 hours.
Kaieteur News understands that Surattan is the owner of two minibuses and lives with his wife, Davica Surattan, 44, and son, 27-year old Davendra.
Speaking to this newspaper last evening, Surattan said that his family had attended the funeral of a friend, and his wife and son had returned home ahead of him.
Just as his wife was serving their son his food, the bandits pounced.
They held Davica Surattan, her son Davendra and a friend who was visiting at the time at gunpoint.
The young man upon seeing the bandits urged his mother to remain quiet as the bandits ordered them into the house.
Budnarine Surattan said that he arrived home about 30 minutes later and was a little suspicious when his household appeared unusually quiet, after he had parked his minibus outside the yard.
Nevertheless, he pushed open his kitchen door and was greeted with the sight of his wife, son, grandson and the friend lying on the floor as the bandits stood over them with their guns at the ready.
“Me nah know that bandit deh in me house. Dem point dey gun at me and snatch off me chain den tell me lie down,” Surattan told this newspaper.
The men relieved him of the pair of Timberland boots he was wearing and then proceeded to rummage through his pants pockets.
According to Surattan, the bandits who were all masked had already tumbled up his house looking for valuables.
“Each drawer, each bag, everything dem empty,” he told Kaieteur News.
“Dem walk up pon me son dem. Dey beat me wife real bad,” Surattan added.
The men then tied up Surattan and his family after severing their telephone line.
They then packed their loot into bags and holding the neighbour hostage, forced him to carry the load.
As they made good their escape, the bandits also held up some fishermen at the Kilkoy Koker and made them too carry some of the stolen articles.
“They had to carry dem far because dis thing happen around eight o’clock and is till two de neighbour come back,” Surattan said.
He told this newspaper that the neighbour, Simon Pallingum reported that the men had taken him as far as Albion where they crossed a channel and disappeared.
According to Surattan, a while after the bandits left, his son drove to the police station and there was quick response from the ranks, but by then the bandits had already disappeared from the area. Meanwhile, also in Berbice at about 20:30 on Sunday, the police searched a house at Number 70 Village Corentyne and found a 12-gauge shotgun and 21 matching cartridges.
One man was arrested and charges will be instituted shortly.

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