Three held over newspaper vendor robbery

Joyce and Sebastian Ramsuchit

Three persons have been detained in connection with the armed robbery committed on newspaper vendor Sebastian Ramsuchit and his family two Saturdays ago and they are expected to be placed on an identification tomorrow, according to Commander of ‘A’ Division Clifton Hicken.

Ramsuchit was gun butted and beaten to his head on March 25, when armed bandits invaded his Lot 21 ‘CC’ Eccles, East Bank Demerara home, demanding cash and other valuables.

His wife, Joyce Ramsuchit, 53, sustained a single gunshot wound to her right leg after she told the gunmen that her family had no cash to hand over. They were both taken to the George-town Public Hospital (GPH) where Ramsuchit was treated and sent away, and his wife underwent