A third-year biology student at the University of Guyana, Berbice Campus, was on Monday robbed at cutlass-point of an IPhone, Samsung Galaxy cellphone, and an electronic tablet.
Lakhnarayan Bhagarathi, 18, of Line Path ‘C’, Upper Corentyne, explained that he left the Tain Campus and headed to Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, to grab something to eat, after which he boarded a hire car in the township a short distance before Church’s Chicken to return to the campus. “The driver tell me he got to collect something through J.C Chandisingh [Secondary Sc-hool] street but there was another passenger in the back seat with me so I didn’t really think anything of it but the passenger was looking out the window all the time and his back was facing me.”
However, Bhagarathi said as the car proceeded through the street, the passenger in the backseat suddenly reached over and placed a cloth over his head. “They come down till to the back of the street and pull me out and the car drive off and then he take the cloth off my head I see he get on a pantyhose on his face and the eyes and mouth cut and he got a cutlass in his hand.”
He said the perpetrator then began to broadside him in the head while demanding he hand over his electronic devices, “He go in my pocket and see I had money and go in my bag and see I had money but didn’t take [any]. I had $4,000 in my pocket and $5,000 in my bag and he didn’t take it. I had on two silver chain, one silver band and two silver rings and he na take it but he kept asking for the password to my things but I didn’t tell him.”
He said that made the attacker angry, but at that time “some people did pulling seine so I start holla for help and when he see that he run get away.”
Although Bhagarathi does not suspect anyone, he noted that “he know in which pocket I kept my tablet and he go there and take it out.”
Bhagarathi sustained injuries to his head and legs.
He said, the perpetrator was wearing a blue shirt during the attack and that the car he boarded was a silver-coloured one.
Bhagarathi has since filed a report with the police in Berbice. He said he visited GTT yesterday in an effort to deactivate his phones’ SIM cards and discovered “that the Samsung phone was active the night I was robbed and the next day. The person made two calls to Liverpool [Village, Corentyne].”
He said he has since provided the number and information to officers at the Whim Police Station and is hoping that they will question the person in order to nab the perpetrators behind the attack. “I really want back my device[s]. My tablet got all of my UG work and [as] I does teach lessons, my Samsung phone has all of the students information and work and the IPhone has all of my personal pictures [since] that was my personal phone.”
The young man is asking anyone with information on the stolen items to contact the nearest police station.
