Recent accident victim caught red handed during robbery spree

Jul 10, 2014 News

A man who was a victim of a recent hit and run accident which claimed three lives, two sisters and their niece— has been

Robbery victim:
Delroy Park

charged and remanded to jail on two counts of robbery under arms.
He was positively identified at the scene of one of the crimes and fingered as a notorious bandit. This was after his mask was pulled off by one of the victims.
The man, Delroy Park, 28, called ‘Sticky’, of Cromarty Farm, was the first of the five victims of the hit and run accidents on Wednesday June 11, last.
Yesterday, Park appeared before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh at the Whim Magistrate’s Court on the charges of robbery under arms. On July 5, last, at Kilmarnock Village Corentyne, Berbice, Park and others who were armed with a gun, robbed Alisha Drepaul-Hoyte and Andre Hoyte of a cellular phone, a gold chain, two gold rings, a wrist watch and a silver bracelet.
Prosecutor Sergeant Phillip Sheriff, who opposed bail, cited the nature and prevalence of the offence in which a gun was used. He also stated that the accused is a suspect in other robberies under arms offences and more charges are likely.
The police were after a group of bandits who had committed a number of robberies and rape in the Central Corentyne area. The first incident occurred on April 12, at Lot 21 Maida Farm, Corentyne Berbice.
During that ordeal three masked bandits, armed with a shotgun, cutlass and knife, entered the home of a hire car driver and robbed him of cash, a cell phone and jewelry. The men also robbed the man’s wife of a substantial amount of cash and a large quantity of gold jewelry.
They also robbed two other persons, who were in the home at the time, of cash and a quantity of gold and jewelry, a cell phone and US$700. The man’s wife was allegedly also raped during the rampage.
The second incident occurred on May 2 in which three armed bandits attacked and robbed a woman of Maida farm and stole US and Guyana Currency. The men later raped the woman.
During the Saturday incident after the bandits attacked and robbed the couple the men then took the woman to a house nearby and forced her to call out her relative with the intention of continuing their rampage.
However, as the woman opened the door after hearing her relative call, the woman made a dash for safety into the house. The perplexed woman who had just opened her door then grabbed at the man’s face and ripped off his mask. She was terrified to see that it was Park. The man lived not too far from her and she knew him.
The man escaped, but was subsequently nabbed by police. When he was captured he was wearing a neck brace as a result of the recent accident. He was later positively identified during and ID parade.
Investigations are continuing into the other incidents and rape. He is expected to return to court on the August 13.

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