Six held over Hope fire killing…‘I couldn’t do anything’

Moshim Khan

As Anita Baichan burned to death in a fire set by robbers who had invaded her Hope, West Coast Berbice home early Sunday morning, her son could only watch on helplessly.

Baichan, 49, had been bound and gagged by the two bandits who had brutalised both her and her son, Moshim Khan, 22, during a robbery that lasted for more than hour.

Six persons have since been held by police in connection with the attack. Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum confirmed