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Housewife beaten unconscious in Melanie robbery

Mar 30, 2011 Peeping Tom

Two bandits severely beat a 56-year-old housewife to unconsciousness before ransacking her Melanie Damishana Public Road, East Coast Demerara home, and making off with an undisclosed amount of cash and other valuables in a brazen daytime robbery yesterday.
Sursattie Chandrabally, well known as ‘Data’, had to seek medical attention for her injuries which she sustained during the attack which took place around 14:00 hours and lasted for about 20 minutes.
From all appearances the two men were familiar with the woman’s household, since they kept demanding the woman’s husband’s licenced firearm during the entire operation and they even ‘tumbled’ the interior of both upper and lower flats of the property in search of the weapon.
Kaieteur News learnt that the housewife was alone at home and had just secured the bottom flat where she lay in a hammock watching television, when she heard a knocking on the door.
She related that as soon as she got up to see who it was, the two men kicked open the door and barged in.
“I start hollering right away because I know that nobody don’t come in my house like that. They rush me and they take a towel and tie meh mouth,” the woman recalled.
She said that the men began demanding cash and her husband’s gun.
“They beat me bad. Dey keep asking for the gun,” Chandrabally told this newspaper via telephone last evening.
According to the woman, the bandits had locked the door and despite her screams, no one heard her.
She said that the men threatened to kill her, even picking up one of her knives to make good their threat.
“I had no other alternative but to tell them where the money was. What else could I do?” she explained.
By this time she had lost consciousness and the men ransacked the entire property in search of valuables.
After they left, Chandrabally regained consciousness but was so disoriented that she was unaware of what she was doing.
“Me neighbour say that I run to the fence, hollering. I can’t remember that. She say she thought that my husband had died,” Chandrabally recalled.
Eventually, her daughter arrived and assisted in taking her to a city hospital where she was treated and sent away.
No one has so far been arrested.

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