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Beaten and robbed Essequibo businessman scared to reopen business

Jun 03, 2012 News

 

Although police have questioned several suspects who allegedly beat and robbed former teacher and businessman, Arnold Granville, of Lot 22 East Richmond Public Road, no arrests have been made.
Granville, who said that he is fearful of another attack, said persons have spotted both of the suspects, days after the incident in the Village.
He has also indicated that he obtained additional information on the persons.
Granville is maintaining that he would never feel safe until he has been entrusted with a gun. He said that his application was rejected five times.
On Tuesday May 28, last, around 19:00 hours, two men, one armed with a gun and masked, turned up at Granville’s home  and, after beating him, stole one gold chain, along with three gold rings, worth some $200,000 from his person.
In Granville’s former report, he said he was engrossed in viewing a version of the local news when he heard someone calling.
He said a few seconds later, a man who presented himself as a customer showed up at his door and subsequently made a request for some phone cards.
Granville said that he told the man, whom he did not recognize, that he was looking at the news and was not selling phone cards at that moment.
The former teacher said that before he fully realised what was transpiring, another masked man with a small revolver came from behind of one of the pillars on his building.
Granville said the men proceeded to push him further in his house. There was a scuffle between him and both men. “I kept hollering for thief, thief, help, murder,” Granville recalled.
Granville said that during the scuffle, the masked gunman lashed him in his head with the gun. He also received cuffs to his face and his feet were stomped on. He said that the men wore huge boots.
The traumatized Granville said he has since received treatment at the Suddie Public Hospital in the form of stitches to his head. He added that he needs the police to act on information they have in their possession with immediacy.
The police have also acknowledged that all information is being processed.

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