As he lay in the hospital after sustaining a fractured skull during his attempts to fight off home invaders, Nicholas Harrinandan heard his phone ringing.
It was located in the pocket of one of the other patients—one of the men who tried to rob him but ended up in the hospital nursing severe injuries inflicted by Harrinandan, who managed to subdue the robber until the police arrived.
With a swollen face, blackened eyes and stitches across his head, Harrinandan, 38, who remains a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), recounted the encounter at his Tucberg, New Amsterdam home.
Early Saturday morning, Harrinandan was asleep in a hammock on the verandah of his two-storey house when he was awakened by a strange noise coming from inside of the house.
The bandits had apparently gained access to the house by jumping onto the verandah, where they passed him asleep in the hammock, Harrinandan said.
Although somewhat dazed, he tried to look inside from his hammock but it was pitch black owing to the switched off lights and so he could not see anything.
As a result, he rushed into the house, switched on the lights and was soon face to face with three masked men.
Despite being unarmed, he rushed the men, one of whom greeted him with a chop to the left side of his head.
By then, Harrinandan’s wife joined in and struck one of the men with a heavy statue of an angel. She kept her distance from the fight, but continued to hurl objects at hand at the men.
While Harrinandan could not clearly recall how he managed to arm himself with a chopper, he said he used every bit of his strength to fight and protect his wife and two other women who were in another building very close to the house.
Harrinandan said he managed to get his hands around the neck of one of the men and he choked him until he begged for mercy.
He said the bandit even called the name of an attorney, whom he claimed as a relation, and he promised that his relatives would compensate for the actions, Harrinandan added.
Although he was also severely wounded, Harrinandan said that he kept him braced to a wall while he called out to the women in the other building to call the police. He then heard them saying that they had already called the police.
After the police came, Harrinandan said he and the wounded bandit were transported to the New Amsterdam Hospital.
The man has since pointed out his accomplices to the police, Harrinandan said.
Harrinandan said that he was a pastor and he also worked as a seaman.
