Bandits terrorise Stewartville families

Jun 30, 2015 News

Bandits terrorized two Stewartville, West Coast Demerara households during a 15-minute robbery spree, early yesterday morning.
The bandits’ main target was a Bourda Market businesswoman, whom they tricked into opening up her door by using one of her employees.
It was around 03:00 am, and the businesswoman, who is familiarly known as ‘Naz’, was already up, preparing to leave for her business in the city.
The bandits had already attacked the home of one of her employees who lived in the back of her yard and robbed them of an undisclosed amount in cash.
They then took the employee to the front where they forced him to call out his employer, who was waiting for him to accompany her to the city.
According to the business woman, she got up and as usual, sat in her home, waiting for the driver of her Canter truck to transport her with her goods to the market.
She said that she shouted over to the employee, who lives at the back house and told him to get ready as the driver would arrive soon.
She was unaware that bandits had attacked his home and was holding him under duress.
“When I call him, like they allow he fuh answer and he say he coming now. Then he rap on the door and ask me to warm up some food in my microwave (oven).”
Naz said that she collected the bowl with food but did not open her door. She did not see the bandits, who had obviously secreted themselves and were instructing her employee as to what to say.
A few seconds later the employee made another demand; this time he was instructed by the bandits to ask her for something to drink, since they knew that she would have to open the door.
“When I open the door, a bandit run in and tell me lie down. I only see one bandit and after he tell me drop on the ground, I go down and close me eyes,” the businesswoman told this newspaper, adding that she could not say for sure how many bandits entered her house.
Kaieteur News was told that at that time, except for one of the woman’s daughters, the other occupants of Naz’s household were asleep, but not for long.
After tying up the businesswoman and her daughter, the bandits went into a bedroom where they confronted her son-in law. It was as if the bandits had knowledge of who slept in which room.
“I was in the front room sleeping and they went into the middle room to my brother-in law. Between sleep and wake, I hear he (brother-in-law) arguing with somebody,” recalled another one of Naz’s daughters, Bibi Zareena Singh.
A bandit was telling her brother-in-law to get up and since he was rudely awakened the man took a while to comply.
“I hear the bandit saying, ‘Like you want fight.’ And I call out to my brother-in-law,” Singh said.
The sound of her voice gave her away, because a few seconds later, a bandit barged into her bedroom and dragged her out of her bed.
“He rush in and tell me ‘Shut you mouth. Wha you keeping noise for?’ When I go outside, I see they done tie up the rest of the family,” Singh explained.
Although Singh wasn’t tied up like the rest, she too did not get a good look at the bandits, since she was forced to the ground and ordered not to look up. All she could recall was that one of the bandits was wearing a pair of camouflage trousers.
All the while the bandits were demanding cash and jewellery, threatening to kill if their demands were not complied with.
“They keep asking, ‘whey de gold and US deh?’ They say they gon beat we. They even lash me brother-in-law in he head with a gun,” Singh said.
Eventually, the family gave in and Singh’s sister took one of the bandits into a bedroom and gave him the cash and jewellery.
The bandits then made good their escape but not before slashing the tyres of their victims’ car.
According to Singh, as the bandits were leaving, they also discharged a few rounds at the Canter truck driver and another employee who were reporting for work.
The matter was subsequently reported to the police and investigations have been launched.

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