Bloomfield family beaten, robbed during home invasion

Mar 05, 2019 News

A husband and wife of Bloomfield, Corentyne, Berbice, are considering to vacate their property after armed men invaded it on Sunday around 3:30 hrs, beating and robbing them in the process.
Asif Owal, a clerk of Mibicuri Hospital, and his wife, were sleeping with their 3-year-old son at their Lot 379 4th Street, Bloomfield residence, when the woman awoke her husband and alerted him that there was a noise on the shed outside.
According to Owal, they were in the upper flat of the two-storey house and, “when I woke up, I also heard the noise on the shed, so I grabbed my torchlight and shine it in the hall and I shouted, “thief, thief”.
He said that shortly after, he heard someone banging on and breaking the window situated near the step.

The Owals’ residence

“After I heard the banging, I told my wife not to panic, because at that point, we could not do anything, so in no time, the guys dem come in, one jump through the window and come in the house and took out the bar from the door while the others gained entry.”
Owal recounted that he had already run back to the room with his wife and child and locked the door, but one of the men kept yelling for them to open the door.
“They were banging to come in the room, so I told them that ‘I can’t open it if you banging it like that, and the man told them, “y’all stop” and I opened it and about five men ran in,” Owal explained.

Asif Owal sustained two gashes to the head.

He said at that point, the men began to demand cash, jewellery and for “the disc” – Owal’s home had surveillance, and they were requesting the recording. He told them that it was in the bottom flat and at the same time begged them not to harm his family.
“I gave them whatever we had and then I took them downstairs and showed them where the camera was and the DVR, and they grabbed it and then they started hitting me on the head with the gun and a bar until I fell on the ground. They still continued hitting me while I was on the ground”, Owal recalled.
The traumatized father of one told Kaieteur News that after they had given the perpetrators all that they had, the men were still sticking around for more, and so at that poin,t he told them to take his car keys and they refused. One of the men on lookout shouted “police coming”, and this prompted the men to leave the premises.
The men made off with the DVR, two gold chains, two pairs of gold earrings, three gold rings, three gold bangles, three silver chains, three silver cricket bands, two Samsung cellphones and $30,000 in cash.
Owal told this publication that he received eleven stitches from the wounds he suffered from the beating along with other marks about his neck, head and body. He stated that he is still scared, and they have opted to stay at a relative’s house since they have considered moving out from their home.

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