Latest update September 3rd, 2026 10:25 AM
WBD businessman shoots another thief at workshop
Burglars are likely to now think twice about stealing from Bellevue, West Bank
The wounded Sunil Dindyal at the scene
Demerara businessman Ronald Cappell.
Cappell packs a licenced handgun and he’s been forced to shoot two thieves within the past two years after nabbing them red-handed on his property.
One was shot in the leg in 2013, allegedly while attacking Cappell at the businessman’s workshop. Last Monday, he shot another burglar in the hand and buttocks.
The thief, identified as Sunil Dindyal, 42, of De Willem, West Coast Demerara, had already packed a sack with expensive machinery from Cappell’s workshop. The businessman also has a store above the workshop.
It was at around ten minutes to midnight last Monday when Cappell, about to drive into his Lot 101 Bellevue premises, spotted a strange man leaving the premises. He said that the intruder was carrying a sack.
On seeing the businessman, the thief dropped his loot – a sanding machine and a vibrating machine – and tried to scale a nearby fence. The businessman said he opened fire, wounding the thief in the buttocks and left arm.
Police took the wounded man to the West Demerara Regional Hospital before placing him under guard at the Georgetown Hospital.
Cappell explained that his workshop is still under construction and that allowed the thief to gain easy access, where millions in equipment is stored.
He said that he’s suffered other losses in the past.
In March 2013, the barking of neigbourhood dogs alerted him to the fact that an intruder was on his property. On checking, he came face to face with a man who was in his workshop. Cappell said he was forced to shoot the thief in his left leg after the man tried to hit him with a piece of lumber.
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