Two men are in police custody following an armed robbery on a Linden businessman while he was in a boat crossing the Demerara River on Thursday.
Businessman Rudolph Sinclair was on his way home shortly before midnight on Thursday when he was attacked. He told Stabroek News he was in one of Chester’s boats along with the captain, boat conductor and two young men. As the boat reached the middle of the river the two young men attacked him. “I just see deh man pull out a gun and he started attacking me. He keep lashing me in meh face with de gun and I was fighting back,” he said.
As he wrestled with his assailant the other man attacked him from behind choking him as he relieved him of his gold chains valued in excess of $800,000.
“I keep fighting with dem and then they start to try to tek off me bands and rings dah is when I seh –all ah we gon gaff uh dead here tonight, cause I de mean dem din getting me rest a stuff,” he told this newspaper.
Sinclair said as he wrestled with more vigour, the men seemed to tire, and since by that time the boat had landed on the Mackenzie shore they then made good their escape.
All along the captain and conductor of the boat did not intervene out of the fear that someone might have got shot.
Stabroek News understands that no one was in the vicinity of the landing at the time, but an alarm was raised by the boat captain, conductor and Sinclair. However, by that time the two robbers were already out of sight. Later the same night the men returned to the boat landing and threatened to kill the captain and his conductor if they told anyone about the incident.
Sinclair said that he and the other occupants of the boat knew the men, which was what led to their arrest yesterday. According to him he received word that the two had been seen at the Wisroc junction awaiting transportation to go into the interior. Police ranks were alerted and the men were captured. They did not have the gold chains in their possession at the time.
guyana is realy getting from bad to worst!
linden was never like this before,what is going on?
they learn these bad things from Georgetown.
Crime is like a cancer, it spreads! If Guyanese had band together like they should several years ago during the virus’s first outbreak, it would have been somewhat contained by now…Some choose to harbor criminals in their communities, now, no one is exempt from criminal attacks.
A land of criminals who make no attempt to hide their identities as they commit crimes. I guess Roger Khan’s life of drug trafficking, material acquisition and friendship with lawmakers and enforcers of the law have emboldened even the petty street thugs.
mr. sin clair one advise to you DONT WEAR NO MILLION DOLLAR GOLD
CHAIN AROUND YOUR NECK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WITHOUT ANY
PROTECTION, you are lucky to be alive the second time you might
not be that lucky….
Mr. Sinclair i feel little bit sorry for you but what do you think you were Tiffany’s Window. You have more than a Million Dollars worth of jewelry on you don’t you expect someone to get smart?
Mr, Sinclair just grow up and stop being a show-boy. Any jail the two for 5 years.
things hard bad bad in this waste land
Mr sinclair a word to the wise if you walk around with 800,000 dolla jewellery what you expect. Some guyanese will never learn and he is a dummy for wanting to die over material things, people need to wake up and stop being so STUPID
SN you axed a simple comment asking why you dont publish the thieves name shame on you
MR. SINCLAIR SHOULD BE FREE TO WEAR WHAT HE WANTS, WHEN HE WANTS!! as should everyone! IT USED TO BE THAT WAY, ONCE UPON A TIME!! BUT DIS TIME NAH LANG TIME! WHAT WE SOW, WE REAP! TODAY, EVERYBODY KNOW, WHO GAT THE GOLD! NONE AWE SAFE! SORRY, MR. SINCLAIR.
We have to start flogging these violent criminals, then jailing them for life for this kind of violent robbery.I will always blame the weak court system in Guyana, for not giving of it’s best, and thus encouraing these criminal acts to continue by light sentencing.We need to overhaul the penal code completely.We need the death penalty .The damn country is crawling with thugs, murderers, rapists,spousal abuse.The justice system should be held acountable. They are not getting the job done.
every thing will be good