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Clonbrook family terrorised by gun-toting bandits

Apr 09, 2010 News

By Jenelle Carter

A family from Clonbrook on the East Coast of Demerara is thankful to be alive, but believe that the slothfulness on the part of the police could have had dire consequences, after two gunmen invaded their premises at around 03:15 hours yesterday.
Businessman Rickey Kumar, who operates a grocery store at lot 40 Section ‘C’ Clonbrook, said he was asleep in the front bedroom of the upper flat of the house when he heard the glass door on the verandah being smashed. He said instinctively he got up and attempted to close his bedroom door but just then someone kicked the door open.
According to Kumar, he was then confronted by two masked men who were both carrying Berretta submachine guns. The man said his younger daughter who was on the bed with him was dragged off the bed as the gunmen ordered all of them into the living room.
The man said another relative who was in the second bedroom also locked himself in, but was forced to open and join the others in the living room after the gunmen began violently kicking the door.
“My mother was sitting in the chair and they tell she lie on the floor and we tell dem that she got knee problems so they lef she. Then dem carry me down stairs in the shop,” Kumar related. The man said when he went down in the shop, another relative was downstairs in the kitchen cooking. He said he was forced to hand over all the money he had.
“When I done hand over the money they still keep asking fuh more. One ah dem tek a pot with hot water off de stove and threaten fuh bun me if I ain’t give mo money,” Kumar recalled.
He said he was then dragged back upstairs and forced to lie on the floor as one of the gunmen began kicking him about his body. According to Kumar, from the time his glass door was smashed neighbours were awakened and began calling the police. The gunmen, he emphasized, stayed some 20 to 30 minutes in his house.
The man said that after the bandits completely ransacked his home they fled through the back yard, and during their escape bid several shots were fired. He added that throughout the ordeal a third man with a gun stood watch in front the yard.
The men made good their escape with an undisclosed amount of cash, gold jewellery, a DVD player and a digital camera.
Meanwhile Kumar said that they are all thankful that no one was seriously injured but were furious over the way the matter was dealt with by the police. The businessman said after the men fled the area, he kept calling the Clonbrook Police outpost, the Cove and John and Vigilance Stations. The man said his neighbours throughout their ordeal were calling the police station and were told that they (Police) had no vehicle to dispatch to the area. He said at one time they were told by a rank at the Cove and John station that they should contact the Timehri Police Station since the patrol is in that area.
“One time de people at Cove and John tell we that we must send transportation for them…is when we call Vigilance station then they say that they coming,” Kumar said. He further lamented the fact that the Clonbrook Police Outpost is located a corner away from where he lives. Eventually, Kumar said, the police from Vigilance Police station did arrive and fingerprints were taken.
“From the time we glass door break de neigbours start calling the police and these people spend half an hour in we house. If the police de respond fast they coulda catch these people,” Kumar opined.
The businessman said this is the second time his business has been attacked and robbed by gunmen. The first time, he said, his family was attacked while living in Berbice and following that incident they relocated to Clonbrook.

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