Woman ambushed, robbed in Peter’s Hall attack

Oct 08, 2019 News

Police on the East Bank of Demerara are investigating a brazen daytime robbery that occurred at Peter’s Hall ‘Back Street.
The robbery which occurred Saturday afternoon around 13:45hrs left a family of three traumatized in the process. However no one was seriously injured.
It occurred in the vicinity of Sultan’s Variety Store, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
Kaieteur New understands that, last Saturday afternoon, owner of the variety store, Roy Sultan along with his wife and 14-year-old daughter were victims of a robbery after three men armed with handguns exited a fully tinted silver Toyota Premio car and demanded that the family hand over their valuables.
Fearful for their lives the trio handed over an undisclosed amount of cash and jewelry to the bandits who made good their escape in the waiting car. The matter has since been reported to the Providence Police Station. However, no arrest was made.
Video footage from a CCTV camera in the area shows the gunmen approaching the woman who was walking towards the store. The robber then pointed a handgun at the woman and then takes away her handbag. Further in the video shows another robber exiting the getaway vehicle and then approaches the woman’s car where her husband and child were still inside. They were also robbed .After committing the dreadful act the gunmen then left the scene.
In an interview, owner of the store, Roy Sultan told Kaieteur News that it is his belief that the gunmen were trailing his car because the first stop he made was to a bank and then a restaurant. Upon leaving the restaurant he then proceeded home.
“Dem man had to be following we… because we make nuff stops before going back to the store and soon as I stop the car in front of the store these men exit a car and rushed at my wife. After I see that happened I told my daughter to stay in the car with me but then dem man come up to my car and put a gun to my child head and demand cash from us,” Sultan recalled.
Sultan suspects that the gunmen were brazen in their attack because of the lack of law enforcers and patrol vehicles in the community.
“Peter’s Hall was a nice place to live, but not now… every other day you getting reports of persons being rob in this place and this need to be stopped but in order for this problem to be stopped we need the police intervention.”
When contacted, a Police Officer stationed at the Providence Police Station told this publication that the car that was involved in the robbery is also suspected to be attached to a recent robbery that occurred a few villages away.
See video link to the brazen attack at https://www.facebook.com/GuyaneseCritic/videos/540335346718444/

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