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Thieves smash through concrete wall, rob Grove family
The hole in the concrete wall through which the thieves entered
Another daring daylight robbery has left Grace Inniss and her husband in a lot of expenses. Bandits smashed the concrete walls of their home for the fourth time in less than a year.
On Thursday they made good their escape with the couple’s brand new television set that they had bought to replace one they had carried away earlier.
Reports are that Inniss, who is a teacher at the Peter’s Hall Primary School, East Bank Demerara, left her home around 07:00 hrs to go to work. Her husband had already left for his workplace.
She received a telephone call from her husband around 11:00 hours when he returned home for lunch, notifying her that their home located at 600 Section ‘A’, Golden Grove New Scheme had once again been broken into by bandits.
The woman immediately rushed home and upon her arrival she saw the concrete walls of her home broken on two sides of the house with pieces of broken blocks lying in her yard.
Inniss said that two weeks ago when the culprits broke away almost half of her concrete wall and gained entry into her house, they stole her digital camera, a gas cylinder and a $15,000 perfume set .
On this occasion, the bandits stole her television set, which was transported out of her house through a huge hole that was created after they damaged her walls and broke the concrete into pieces.
Inniss explained that on the previous occasion when the concrete wall was broken apart, she and her husband placed wooden “form boards” to block up the area and then concrete it once again.
The thieves tried to re-enter her home through the recently repaired spot where they encountered the wooded reinforcement. They opted to smash another wall.
She said, “Last year when they break it they took away my 32-inch flat screen TV. We have lost almost $400,000 to the break-ins. It isn’t easy; you can’t move up. It really hard and tough because every time they do this, you have to replace items and rebuild some part of the house.”
The family suspects that it could be some young men who “hang round the area” and originate from Kaneville, Grove, East Bank Demerara, since some of them were seen on numerous occasions breaking into tombs and stealing the grill work around them. She said that the police were called in on every occasion. However; by the time they arrived, the men had already escaped into streets by way of a pipe across a weed choked canal.
Where the Innisses live is relatively isolated. Many of the houses are unfinished or the neighbours all leave their homes to go to work. Her home is therefore an easy target for these men.
This is not the first time homes in that area have been broken into in recent times.
Residents are of the opinion that if police ranks patrol the streets especially those at the far end of the village , such incidents could be prevented. The culprits will know that they can be caught in the act quite easily.
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