Bandits on Friday broke into the Vlissengen Road home of a Canadian businesswoman carting off an undisclosed sum of cash and millions of dollars in gold and diamond jewellery. The businesswoman and her family are now pleading for the assistance of the police.
Reports are the family secured their premises and left their home on Friday morning at 10 am. When they returned around 4.30 pm, they discovered the home ransacked and the valuables missing. The family of four said they do not have any knowledge of who the perpetrators are, but stressed that it was likely more then one person.
Sharda Jaigobin, a family member, said she observed the back door broken and items in the house in chaos. “When we come back home all of the things were tossed all over the house. We asked the neighbours if they heard any strange noise but they said they only heard when the dogs were barking.” She noted that the dogs are always untied whenever the home is left unattended.
When Stabroek News visited, Sattie, 52, (only name given) who resides in Canada expressed her frustration adding that she arrived in Guyana yesterday morning and was informed that bandits had invaded the home and escaped with all of her jewellery.
“I am very angry because I had two stalls in Stabroek Market and before I left for Canada I took the jewellery out of the stalls because I know how sometimes the stalls get broken into but the same thing what I tried to prevent still occurred.”
The distraught woman related that she worked earnestly to buy the jewellery and stressed that the police should launch an investigation into the matter to find the perpetrators.
She said that at the time of the unlawful act her valuables which she called “real stocks” were in a closet in a room. She also mentioned that the room in which the valuables were housed was locked before the family members left the house.
Concerns were raised by the family about why the police were so slow in responding and investigating the matter. “We reported the matter at 6.30 at the Kitty police station on Friday afternoon and an officer arrived at our home late Friday night (11 pm) and we had to urge him to come inside to see how the house was ransacked. He told us that the police would come and take fingerprints but they never came.”
Efforts to contact the police were futile.
