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Justice for 2012 Boxing Day robbery victim

Jul 30, 2013 News

Relatives of a 56-year-old female shopkeeper from Kuru Kuru, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, are breathing sighs of relief given that the man who attacked and robbed her has been jailed for three years.
On Friday last, Magistrate Leron Daly of the Providence Magistrate’s court sentenced Rennes Gordon to three years for the December 26, 2012 robbery with violence charge. The victim was Eileen Gibson.
During the trial, Police prosecutor Sergeant Shellon Daniels called several witnesses to the stand including the victim’s son in law, who lives close by.
Gibson’s relatives had afterward appealed for justice in the wake of the attack because the woman lives alone and her attacker was likely to strike again.
Gordon had pretended to be a customer, before he robbed the woman and fled the scene with $14,000. During the attack, the shopkeeper was knocked into a semi-conscious state.
According to reports, the accused had lured Gibson out of her shop while pretending that he wanted an item from a glass case.
After knocking the woman out, Gordon subsequently, entered the shop and emptied the drawers of all the money. The shopkeeper pretended to be dead after the robber struck her.
Relatives had reported that after the woman pretended to be dead, the man picked up her body and placed it on his shoulder and was heading to the gate behind the house to dump the body.
But on the way, the woman pretended that she did not know what happened and decided to say thanks to the man for picking her up when she fell down…the man replied: ‘right now I confused.”
The man then put Gibson down, and she then fled into the shop, bolted the doors and screamed for help. This prompted neighbours to come out but by then the thief had fled.
When captured by the police the suspect claimed that Gibson had collapsed near her shop and that he had placed the woman in a chair.

 

 

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