Gunmen beat taxi driver, steal his car

Mar 12, 2014 News

Just six months ago Colin Williams purchased a silver grey Toyota Premio motorcar to try his hand in the taxi business. On Monday he had to run and leave it behind after receiving a beating at the hands of two gun-toting bandits.
The incident occurred at Lamaha Park in broad daylight and even though the police responded promptly to his call for help, the men fled with his car, HC 2985, which has not been seen since.
A totally devastated Williams told this newspaper yesterday that one of the men hired him from the Stabroek Market to go to Meadowbrook.
He did not have the slightest clue that the passenger was up to no good, since according to Williams, “The man look genuine.” He described the passenger as a dreadlocked man who had a tattoo on his neck with gold teeth in his mouth.
Throughout the journey, the passenger was on his cellular phone, and he appeared to be speaking to a female.
Williams was directed to Lamaha Park and when he reached there, the passenger asked him to stop at a shop where he claimed he had to “pick up something.”
Williams waited while the passenger spoke to a woman in the shop and still he did not suspect anything.
The passenger rejoined the car and they headed to another location not too far away, where the passenger came out to relieve himself.
Since nature was calling on Williams too, he also took the opportunity to do the same, leaving his keys in the ignition. Big mistake!
“There is where the lickin start. Another man come up and punch me fuss. I don’t know where he come from,” Williams recalled. He said that his passenger whipped out a gun and he too joined in beating him.
“The other one tellin he, ‘Bannas, leh we buss dis man head, we ain’t come hey fuh beat he, leh we buss he f^@^ing head and go lang,’” Williams related.
He did not wait to see if the men would carry out their intention; he bolted into the nearby bushes, leaving his car to the men.
Using another cell phone that was still in his possession, Williams called 911 and surprisingly the police responded promptly.
However, by the time they arrived the men had already sped off with his car and disappeared.
“I spent about 10 minutes hiding in the bush and when I come out, the people in the area were very helpful. They sap me with Limacol because I was fainting from the beating I had received,” the taxi driver explained.
A search is presently underway to try and locate his car, but so far there have been no concrete leads.

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