Republic Bank robbery accused for court today

Jul 13, 2017 News

Five persons who were fingered in the attempted robbery at Republic Bank on Water Street, Georgetown on July 4 last, will be heading to court today.
Kaieteur News was informed that the police prepared the file late yesterday.
Those who will be charged are bank employee Jamal Haynes, Keron Saunders, and a police constable and rural constable who reportedly admitted their involvement in the attempted robbery.
This newspaper was unable to confirm if the fifth suspect is the second bank employee, who was allegedly providing information to the suspects from the inside.
It was Haynes, Saunders and Elton Wray, an agronomist who went into the bank and held the employees hostage. Wray was shot dead.
Kaieteur News understands that the men were planning on getting their hands on the night deposits since it was a three-day weekend and companies would have deposited millions into the chute.
The robbery on the bank had reportedly been planned three months before.
As customary, a female staffer was supposed to be at the bank at 07:10 hours two Tuesdays ago and should have been emptying the chute and taking the cash to the vault.
According to the bandits’ plan, when they entered the bank, they would have held the staffers hostage and seized the woman who would have been emptying the chute—there they would have grabbed a few bags of cash and escaped.
Everything went according to the plan until the three bandits entered the bank and Haynes did not see his colleague who had access to the chute.
“He panicked because the woman was not around. She had not yet arrived at work, so they began checking the canister for cash. They then moved to the vault and were knocking on it to get it open,” a staffer at the financial institution said.
This newspaper was told that the woman, who the men wanted, was at the back entrance of the bank when she learnt of the commotion and left.
Meanwhile, Haynes’s senior colleague and junior staffers were in the vault when they saw what was happening on camera. They immediately called the bank’s security manager who then called the police.
By this time, the Professional Guard Services (PGS) in the vicinity reached the scene in less than a minute. There was a 10-minute shootout between the police, guard service and the men before they were held and Wray was killed.

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