Corentyne victims recount robbery terror

The two houses in the yard

Two Corentyne families on Saturday recounted the terror of a ten-minute gunpoint robbery during which two women had to hand over jewellery and an 18-year-old man was shot in his face with pellets.

On Friday night, armed, masked men descended on two houses in Bush Lot and as they escaped they fired pellets at Dorwin Lord, 18. He had to be hospitalised

Police in a statement on Saturday said, “At about 2020h. last night Friday July 03, 2015,