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Black Bush men remanded for robbing elderly shopkeepers
A trio yesterday appeared at the Number 51 Magistrate Court before Magistrate Charlyn Artiga to answer to the joint charge of robbery under arms.
Robbed: Marvin Duncan and wife, Claudette
Floyd La Rose, 35, of Mibicuri South, Martin Kyte and Dinesh Ramphaul appeared shackled before the court as the charge was read. The charge read that on Tuesday, 25th December, 2018 at Mibicuri South, Black Bush Polder, being armed with a dangerous weapon – a gun – robbed Claudette Duncan of $300,000 cash, $80 US, three gold rings valued at $200,000, one gold chain valued at $50,000, one cricket gold band, a quantity of Digicel and GT&T phone cards valued at $12,000 and one BLU cellphone, a total value of $850,000.
They were not required to plead and were represented by Attorney Chandra Sohan.
The prosecution was led by Corporal Lennox Poliah, who, in his reasons for bail refusal, stated that bail should be denied under the grounds that weapons were used and that the accused men were positively identified by the victim. He also noted the nature and gravity of the offence. Bail was subsequently refused and January 7, 2019 was set for report.
Marvin Duncan and Claudette Duncan were both beaten and robbed Christmas night as they were about to close their shop at Zambia Village, Mibicuri South, Black Bush Polder. Duncan had told reporters that all three men concealed their identities, but he managed to recognize their voices and one of their faces after the mask slipped off. Duncan was dealt several lashes to the head with a gun that one of the men was armed with.
The three men charged with robbery yesterday
“When me turn around is then me realise is bandit, so me ask he what he doing, what stupidness he doing, and then the man lash me couple well time behind me head and me start bleed,” Duncan had said. His wife stated that after she heard her husband yelling, she realised that bandits were in their home, and so she attempted to lock the door to the shop with her inside, but one of the men managed to push it open. She too was hit about her body with a gun.
The men, he said, told them to lie flat on the ground, “Then one drag me to the kitchen. Me wife been in the shop, but while me lay down, dem mask come down and me say me know dem boys dis, but me nah talk let dem know”. He stated that one of the men noticed him looking at him and he threw a “rice bag over my face” but he had already identified who it was.
In 2017, Duncan and his wife lost over twenty two million dollars after their home was set on fire by a drug-addicted relative.
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