Latest update April 4th, 2025 6:13 AM
Bandits invade Angoy’s Avenue business
Somawattie Bacchus
Police in ‘B’ Division are investigating an armed robbery committed on a family at Lot 767 Timmers Dam, Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam.
The gang of five, all armed with guns and machetes, invaded the home and business of Ameer Bacchus, 44, and his wife, Somawattie Bacchus, called ‘Samantha’, 40. The couple lives with their four children at the address.
According to the wife, they had just concluded a family get-together when her brother left to drop her husband’s brother home a village away.
Upon his return at approximately 11:35 hrs, she stated that she was in the kitchen in the bottom flat of the house. She told her husband and son who were at home, to open the gates for her brother. Minutes later, Bacchus disclosed that she heard “a soft voice saying ‘tell she don’t move, so I turn around and is then I see a bandit with a gun to my husband head and he repeat and seh ‘tell she don’t move’”.
The still traumatised woman recounted that the gunman dealt a lash to her husband’s head knocking him to the ground, unconscious.
“Dem start kick he and then I ask why dem beating him. I ask why y’all don’t take what y’all want and guh lang and then I bend down fuh help my husband. The bandit start to kick me up in my face and back and asking for my bangle and the cash.”
The woman said she told the gunman that her son will give him the bag with the cash that was located in their shop, in the bottom flat as well.
“Dem seh dem ain’t want dat alone. Dem seh dem want the money in the wardrobe too but I didn’t have money in there. My husband had and that is what we give them and the bag with the money and the jewellery that we had,” Bacchus disclosed.
Additionally, the woman’s 14-year-old son told reporters that there were three gunmen in the home, all armed.
Yadmattie Seegolam point to the door she ran in to escape the gunman
One, he stated, was holding him at gunpoint with a cutlass to his neck while threatening to “chop out my neck if I raise meh head. But I barely raise up and see a man with a gun to my mother and father.”
Meanwhile, the sister-in-law of Somawattie, Yadmattie Seegolam, also disclosed that she had just returned home from work at midnight and was heading to her sister-in-law’s home, situated aback her home when a masked individual grabbed her and pointed a gun to her head while telling her to “don’t move”.
She stated that she walked towards her door in the bottom flat and ran into her house and shut her doors.
The ordeal lasted approximately 30 minutes.
Two cellular phones, a Samsung tablet, a total of $90,000 in cash and an estimated $200,000 in jewellery were stolen during the ordeal. The men escaped through the front yard of the home/business.
No one has been arrested as police continue to investigate.
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