Two men were arrested hours after they beat and robbed a taxi driver in Prashad Nagar on Tuesday night.
David Christopher Megwah, 27, of Hadfield Street, Georgetown was hit in the head with a bottle, held at knife-point and robbed of $5,680. Megwah immediately reported the matter to police and a patrol was able to pick up the perpetrators on Sheriff Street.
When Stabroek News visited Megwah’s home late yesterday afternoon, the man said he was on his way to a police station in the city. He declined to comment on the incident at length, stating that he did not wish to make anything public which would jeopardize the police investigation into the matter.
The incident, police said in a press statement yesterday afternoon, occurred at about 9.45pm. Megwah was hired by the two men at a Georgetown location. The men, this newspaper learnt, told Megwah they were going to a location in Prashad Nagar.
It was while in the Prashad Nagar area, the police said, that the perpetrators launched their attack. One attacker was armed with a glass bottle while the other had a knife.
Megwah, a police source later told this newspaper, was hit in the head with the bottle and then the other attacker placed the knife to his neck. The men, the source said, continued to hit the driver several times about the body and demanded he hand over his “stash.” The men then grabbed Megwah’s cash and escaped with it.
The taxi driver managed to report the incident to a passing police patrol minutes after the men left him in pain from the blows about his body.
Police later arrested the two attackers on Sheriff Street and the stolen items were found on their person. Both men, Megwah, told Stabroek News, were in police custody up to late yesterday afternoon.
The men, police reported in the release, are to be charged shortly.
