Bandits terrify, rob Mon Repos butcher

One of the ransacked bedrooms.

A Mon Repos butcher was bound and gagged for some three hours on Tuesday night while three bandits tumbled his house before escaping with his motor vehicle, cash and other valuables. His intact car was later recovered in an East Bank Demerara village.

Nazim Alli of Lot 63 Mon Repos South, East Coast Demerara managed to free himself after the men left. He then telephoned a relative for help.

Police said in a press release that an investigation has been launched into an armed robbery that occurred at about 21:15 hours during which butcher