Sherry Lake was yesterday chopped to the head in a bandit attack at Norton Street, Georgetown during which one of the assailants also bit a diamond ring off of her son-in-law’s finger.
Police later said that three suspects were arrested shortly after the midday attack, at the nearby Le Repentir Cemetery.
As she awaited an X-ray examination at the George-town Public Hospital (GPH), Lake told Stabroek News that the robbery occurred around 12:20pm. At the time she was at the Lot 19 Norton Street residence with her daughter Patrisha Edwards, 19, son-in-law Abdool Sattaur, 25, and her three grandchildren, ages between one and four years.
Lake explained that the four-year-old had just returned home from nursery school and they had just received some ice from their downstairs neighbour. As a result, the top