Bandits on Saturday morning attacked and robbed a fish vendor and his wife at their Rose Hall, Corentyne home, assaulting the couple and firing a shot before escaping with cash and jewellery. One man has been detained to assist with investigations.
Seenarine Cyril Satrohan, 36, of Reef Section, Rose Hall Town, told Stabroek News that around 5am on Saturday, he was getting ready to go to the market when three men invaded his home. Satrohan, a fish vendor, stated that one man was armed with a gun while the other two were armed with a cutlass each.
“Me open the door and ah go outside to bring in the wheelbarrow to pack the fish. The gunman deh at the side and he say ‘don’t holler,’ but when he say that, me start holler hard and then he lash me up in me head and drag me in the house,” the man recounted. “He tell me he want money and jewellery. Be time the two cutlass man run go upstairs and attack me wife and that was when me haul out the money out ah me pocket and give them,” Satrohan said.
However, this was not enough for the bandits as they continued to beat him. “When the gun one go upstairs where me wife deh, one cutlass one come down and he start fire chop from me, (he said) that he gon chop out me hand and foot and me beg him not to chop me,” Satrohan recounted. He sustained injuries to his face, head and back.
Meantime, Satrohan’s wife Sarita recounted that the men ran upstairs, warned her not to scream and ordered her to take off all her jewellery. She was also assaulted. “The other two then carry me in the room and say them want more, that abie get more, them start empty them bag and find more jewellery and some artificial thing,” the woman recounted.
She said her three-year-old daughter was sleeping and the bandit with the gun went under the net, threatening to hurt the child. However, after Sarita begged him not to harm the toddler, he left the room.
During the attack, the men discharged a round to scare the family. The victims explained that the men covered their faces with kerchiefs and wore topes on their head.
The bandits escaped on foot through the yard. However, according to Satrohan, he heard villagers saying that a car was seen picking up the men a short distance away. They escaped with $140,000 worth of jewellery and $60,000 in cash.
Meanwhile, according to information gathered, one man was detained by the police and is in custody assisting with the investigation. Satrohan told Stabroek News that last Monday, he made arrangements to go and buy fish with one of his acquaintances who drives a car and promised to pay him $4000.
However, according to the fish vendor, after the driver noticed that Satrohan had a large sum of money in his possession, he wanted to raise the price for the trip. “Me tell he $4000 ah the bargain, but when we deh in the car ah come home, he start say that he na mind put somebody to rob me and me tell he ‘budday abie a good friend, how you go tell me something like that’,” Satrohan recalled.
“Then he said that he na mind pick me up and carry me a place, let somebody rob me and kill me,” he said. Satrohan related that he told an employee about the threat but did not report the matter to the police.
However, after the police became aware of the threat, the man was detained. Satrohan said he saw the man at the police station and told him “Budday, you see you threaten me and watch me get rob,” and the man responded “You see you sink me, you go see what go happen.”
Satrohan is calling on the police to carry out a thorough investigation and find the culprits as soon as possible as he is living in fear.
Meanwhile, two men were robbed while returning home from two weddings in the wee hours of yesterday morning.
According to information gathered, Abdul Malik Kissoon of Nigg Settlement, Corentyne, was returning home when a man who was hiding in a dark section of the street in some bushes, jumped out and robbed him at gunpoint. The bandit escaped with a Galaxy cellphone and jewellery. Further, a Rose Hall man was robbed at gunpoint in the Port Mourant area while he was on his way home from a nearby wedding. It is not clear as to what was stolen. According to the police, while investigations are ongoing, no arrest has been made.
