-stabbed in neck, undergoes emergency surgery
A 29-year-old Amelia’s Ward man was stabbed several times in the neck by two armed men who hijacked his car early yesterday morning, the second time this year he has lost a vehicle in this manner.
Kenrick Lawson of 792 South Amelia’s Ward, Linden had to undergo surgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) yesterday. He was transferred from the McKenzie Hospital at about 2.30 am yesterday.
This newspaper learnt from Richard Lawson, the injured man’s brother and the owner of the hijacked car HB 4958, that his brother had picked up two men headed to Kara-Kara. His brother was attacked shortly before 2 am yesterday, he said, and robbed of the silver AE110 Corolla worth $2.2 million.
“He tell me he pick up two boys from Amelia’s Ward bus shed to take them to Kara-Kara,” Richard Lawson explained. “He (Kenrick) tell me that when they reach to the drop off point on Kara-Kara Road one of the boys pay him with a $1000 and is when he reaching for the change that they attack he.”
The men, Richard told Stabroek News, demanded that his brother hand over the car to them. According to him, Kenrick said he tried throw the keys out the vehicle, got out and dashed up the road in an attempt to escape his attackers.
“De guys probably thought he run away with the keys and they run behind him and one of them stab he up in the neck,” Richard reported. “But he (Kenrick) didn’t manage to throw the keys away and the guys went back found the car and get away with it.”
Kenrick was then forced to walk a short distance along Kara-Kara Road before another car stopped and offered assistance. Kenrick was taken to the McKenzie Police Station where a report was made and officers later escorted him to the McKenzie Hospital for medical attention.
Richard told Stabroek News that he was in bed when he got the news and immediately rushed to the hospital.
“I went in de room where they had him on that medical table and he didn’t look all that bad…I see three punctures on one side of he neck and two on de other,” he explained. The wounds, he further said, looked “as if they were caused by a small weapon like a screw driver”.
According to Richard the police at McKenzie assured him that they had informed their colleagues of the theft via radio and that a road block had been set up. However, he said that on his way to Georgetown there were no road blocks.
“We decided to go search on our own,” the owner of the car said. “I asked the cashier at the Harbour Bridge if the vehicle pass and she said yes but she couldn’t show me the receipt because of legal reasons,” he explained.
Richard said that when he got to the other side of the Demerara Harbour Bridge the receipt collector there also said that they had collected a receipt from HB4958 and that the vehicle had driven towards Vreed-en-Hoop.
“I went to Parika twice and up to Wales on the West Bank area but I saw nothing of the car…I made a report to the Parika Police Station as well but up to now I’ve heard nothing from the police,” Richard told Stabroek News yesterday afternoon.
According to him, this is not the first time that Kenrick has been robbed. “On Good Friday this year somebody hijack his car from him in Georgetown…it was a 212 and we still haven’t found that car.”
Kenrick had told Stabroek News then that around 11.30 pm on the night before Good Friday, he left Linden to travel to Georgetown with passengers in his motorcar, HB 5477, a white 212 model. According to him, after dropping off the passengers in Georgetown, he was at the West Demerara bus park around 1.30 am on Good Friday preparing to return to Linden when two men approached him and asked to be taken to the Back Road.
Kenrick said he told the men that he was from Linden and was preparing to leave, but they insisted that he could drop them off and make a “small piece” for himself. The Lindener took up the offer and the men; one sitting in the front seat and the other at the back caused him to drive through Cemetery Road, where they said they were going to pick up a female.
Kenrick said the men asked him to stop at a certain point where they bundled him out of his vehicle and proceeded to rob him. He said he scuffled with them, but they succeeded in stealing his cash, two cell phones and a radio set.
During the ordeal, the taxi driver said, the men also threatened to kill him. A man was later charged with carrying out this attack.
I remember this story when the man was first robbed on the back road.
Car jacking seems to rampant and from all looks of it, it seems that the culprits are spraying over the cars and selling it back.
There is a car company in Guyana that sends people to steal cars that are bought from them.If the buyer takes too long to pay then the bandits working for the company will pay him a visit.
wow is this real that the car dealer is send people to steal back the cars , sad sad but this guy needs a gun ,the job you’re doing is dangerous and u have to protect yourself.
seems to know a lot son??, did you reported this info to the police??
sandhurst how you know that, do you have proof, if so you need to take it to the authorities, so they can investigated, and bring those who are involved to the courts.
you have a fantastic memory my friend
Well sandhurst if you know all this info you’re an accomplise too cause you know who they are and not reporting it to the authorities, and now you are saying you’re are scared coz you not an informer.
I have heard about this as well since when i was back in guyana many years ago.
Well, if you aren’t an informer, then you should not make such a careless statement on the Electronic Media, because the police can make you talk what you don’t know….
car jacking is definatly on the increse in guyana, and as a result taxi drivers should take the nesissary steps to protect themselves, by partishioning the interior of the car for one, ect,ect.
I HOPE THE CAR CO. THAT DEALS IN ILLEGIAL TRANSACTIONS OF STOLEN CARS BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE. LAWLESSNESS IS A WAY OF LIFE NOW IN GUYANA. PEOPLE TRYING TO MAKE AN HONEST LIVING,AND THESE S.O.B. ARE LIKE VULTURES, WAITING TO GRAB WHATEVER THEY CAN. MAKE IT MANDATORY FOR TAXI DRIVERS TO INSTALL ALARM FLASHERS OF SOME SORT WHEN THEY CAN ACTIVATE IN TIME OF DISTRSS.
Separate drivers & passengers by means of a (fiber)glass barrier or something similar. Drivers could lock their doors in front, money could be paid through slots in the barried. Hidden cameras can be installed & radions ought to be on at all times. GPS systems could also be installed for tracking the movements of these vehicles. There MUST be a way to stemm the tide of car jackings especially since they are stolen either for the commission of crimes or to be stripped.
Glad no one died & I wish the victim a speedy recovery.
Vote Obama he is the man
America’s favourite past time come home to roost….car jackings here there everywhere……they are well trained in the US and then deported where they teach the locals their new found skills….its a sad affair…….
It so sad that you can’t own nothing in guyana without someone trying to take it from you, when someone tries to make an honest living they are getting killed, or robbed of their property, carjackings is rampant in guyana and it needs to be stamped out.
That certain car company should be closed down or licence revok. I know of such car company should the goverment look into this.
Change we need like a new Obama here, Obama is the man, so bring him here.
Rafeena and Reshma…are you sisters?
Taxi drivers seems not to read daily papers, never have a passenger in the front seat, spend the money to have proper protection for the car, as it’s becoming worst, have someone wlse in the front seat with you.
Soon, taxi drivers would have to cease work after a certain time, this would teach all a lesson, Peter pay for Paul and Paul pay for all should be the new rules, let everyone walk, fly, run to reach their destination/s.
Respect for lives means nothing more in Guyana, let everyone feel the pinch, taxi drivers would also feel the pinch financially, less monies to take home, then they also would take better precaution/s.
Sorry to hear about Mr. Lawson’s ordeal for the second time but, didn’t Mr. Lawson learn from his previous mistake? What is he doing to attract these thugs? Mr. Lawson please, please be careful out there- ’cause the next time around you may not be so lucky to be alive.
Sorry again!