A hire car driver and a 16-year-old lad have both confessed to robbing an overseas-based Guyanese woman and her family in Number 73 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, on Monday last.
The Guyana Police Force yesterday said that they arrested the 34-year-old hire car driver, of Number 72 Village Corentyne, along with a 16-year-old juvenile “who have confessed to the robbery on the overseas-based Guyanese.”
Meanwhile, Commander of Region Six Superintendent Jairam Ramlakhan yesterday related that a hunt was on for the third suspect.
However, he added that as of yesterday the police were seeking legal advice as it relates to filing charges against the two suspects already in custody.
Shamwattie Naipaul, 58, an overseas-based Guyanese of Number 73 Village, Corentyne, had said that she along with several other relatives came to Guyana for her brother’s funeral.
On Sunday evening, after attending the wake, she asked her son, also an overseas-based Guyanese, to take her and a few others home, where they had something to eat and retired to bed.
Around 1.50 am on Monday, two bandits, armed with guns, broke into her house and carried out their attack.
“All of a sudden, I feel somebody pull my ring out of my finger and when I open my eyes he was right there with a gun on my head and the other one stand up that way over my cousin head,” she recounted.
According to her, both perpetrators, who were masked and armed with guns, ordered them to be quiet and to hand over “the money”.
She related that after she said she did not have any money, the bandit standing over her told her that she should hand over the money before he does something to her.
After removing all of her jewellery, the men proceeded to ransack the entire house.
They carted off one gold chain, valued at $70,000, two gold rings, valued at $80,000, a Samsung cellphone, valued at $40,000, a pair of Clarks shoes, valued at $16,000, and a backpack, valued at $4,000.
The men also escaped with a white Toyota Fielder wagon, PTT 864, which the police later recovered several villages away.
Based on information gathered, while the perpetrators were escaping, a relative returned home with the car and after seeing the bandits he ran and left the vehicle with the keys in the ignition and the bandits promptly commandeered it.
