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Pensioner beaten, thrown in trench during robbery

Sep 03, 2016 News

A 69-year-old man was beaten and thrown in a trench early Thursday morning when he refused to hand over his cash to a gunman at ‘C’ Field Sophia, Georgetown.
The victim has been identified as Beubeien Harvey, a father of 15, of 731 South Turkeyen, ‘C’ Field Sophia.
The incident occurred around 04:30 hrs on Thursday in the vicinity of the Sophia Nursery School.
According to information received, Harvey was heading to the Meadow Bank wharf to purchase fish for resale when he was attacked by the lone gunman, who escaped with $30,000 in cash.
The man’s daughter, Rackeul Harvey said that her father, who sells fish in the village, usually leaves early in the morning to go to the wharf.
“He would walk out and wait on the road for a bus. He said that he was standing talking to a man when this guy come up to him and tell him to pass the money,” the younger Harvey said.
She said that when the bandit confronted her father, the man who was standing with him managed to slip away without the gunman noticing him.
“My father said that he tell the gunman that he doesn’t have any money and the man hit him in his head with the gun and then the two of them fight a little and the bandit pushed him into a trench,” the woman said.
She added that while her father was in the trench, the gunman was continuously demanding that the pensioner handed over his money.
“My father said that he ask him (gunman) if he robbing an old man and then the gunman start to shoot at him in the trench, but he didn’t get shoot,” Rackeul Harvey said.
Kaieteur News was told that the gunman then jumped into the trench with his victim and continued to beat him.
“After he beat him in the trench, he (bandit) come out and then he hold my father’s hand and pulled him out of the trench and collect his money and gone,” the woman related.
A short while later the mini bus that usually picks up the pensioner pulled up and took him to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was treated and sent away.
The younger Harvey said that her father has been buying and selling fish for years and has never been robbed before.
No one has been arrested.

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