An Enmore family was robbed of cash, jewellery and two cell phones when a masked gunman invaded their home at about 8 pm on Thursday.
According to a source who requested anonymity, five Ramphal family members were at home on their veranda when a gunman entered their yard and held them at gunpoint before forcing them into the house and demanding money. In the meantime an accomplice remained at the front of the premises as a lookout.
One of the victims explained to this newspaper during a telephone interview that inside the house the gunman tied her husband, brother and mother before ransacking the place.
“He tie up meh husband, meh mother and meh brother and then he start tumbling de whole house looking fuh money. He din tie up me and meh 10-month-old baby, but he seh dat if anybody mek noise he gun shoot me and de baby dead.”
The bandit kept asking them, “Where is the money?” She said that although she told him that they did not have any money he still demanded cash and continued ransacking the house.
Meanwhile, the mother of one said that she encouraged the other family members to remain calm to avoid annoying the bandit. The woman said that she was very traumatised and kept asking the gunman repeatedly to spare their lives. She related also that he told her he was not going to kill anyone but stressed that all he wanted was money.
By this time, the woman said, the robber had stumbled upon one of her husband’s trousers which had some money in the pockets which had been put aside for any emergencies. “I was so confused and afraid that like I forget we had duh money deh. When he find de money he seh why you lie to me, and at duh time I seh he might a kill me and de baby but he just tek it an he left.”
At the end of what was said to be a two-hour ordeal, the bandits made good their escape on foot with some $500,000 worth of jewellery, US$500 and Cdn$600 along with cell phones belonging to her and her husband.
She told Stabroek News that the section of Enmore where they reside recently suffered several attacks by gunmen who carried out a number of robberies.
The traumatised woman said that the bandits appeared to be between 18 to 20 years old. According to the family, a report was made at the Cove and John Police Station but up to press time last night no arrest had been made.
