Days after being subjected to brutal beatings at the hand of robbers at his home, Uitvlugt goldsmith Suresh (only name given) continues to be rocked by painful headaches, even as police try to find one of the men responsible for the attack.
According to the man’s wife, who asked not to be identified, her husband continues to cry out for headaches that are so bad an appointment has been made for him to receive a Computed Tomography (CT) Scan on Monday.
She also stated that though she was calmer yesterday than she had been all week, she was still fearful that one of his assailants, who escaped capture, will return.
Suresh and his wife were attacked by bandits at about 8.45 pm on Saturday night at their 186 Second Street, Ocean View residence. The woman stated that assistance from one of her neighbors, whose relative turned out to be a policeman, led to roadblocks being set up at Den Amstel and Vreed-en-Hoop after the attack. “We call he pon he cell phone and tell he wha happen, plus give he de vehicle description and he immediately made some calls fuh we,” said Suresh’s wife.
The quick action led to the arrest of three of the four men, who were intercepted while trying to get through the Vreed-en-Hoop road block.
The fourth man was never apprehended, and it is suspected that he was let off somewhere between Uitvlugt, where the robbery took place, and Vreed-en-Hoop.
The man’s wife had stated that a yellow Raum, with a taxi sign on the roof, pulled up at their home a few minutes after her husband had returned home on Saturday. She was, at the time sitting in a hammock situated below the house, where she was having her dinner.
“When he see the car pull up he turn around and walk to the gate to see is who come, and then is when two men come out of the car and tell he don’t move, don’t scream.” Both of them were armed with guns, she noted.
The man’s wife stated that at this point, one of the armed men took her husband to the side of the yard and proceeded to beat him about the head with a gun. The other man, she said, took her into her husband’s workshop and asked her to “show meh weh de gold deh.” On their way workshop she said that the bandit removed a gold necklace and a gold bangle she was wearing. “Me didn’t know bout any gold in deh because me don’t look after de gold so I couldn’t show he nothing,” said the woman.
After the realising he wasn’t getting anywhere, Suresh’s wife said, the gunman who was battering her husband took him into the workshop and he showed both gunmen the safe where the gold he was looking after for some of his clients was being kept. She added that he was made to open the safe, allowing the men to retrieve all that was contained inside.
At some point during the ordeal the one of the intruders received a call, at the end of which both men immediately fled the premises, collected a lookout, who neighbours said was a short distance up the road, and made good their escape.
The woman had stated that several calls were made to the Leonora Police Outpost, all of which went unanswered. “We call and call but the phone keep ringing out, up to now nobody from deh ain’t reach hey.”
