An overseas-based Guyanese pensioner was beaten and robbed in his home at Salton Village, Corentyne, around 12.45 am yesterday.
Veerasammy Narainsami, also known as ‘Fedi’, 67, sustained a chop wound to his head and several bruises about his body. The men gained entry to the top flat of the two-storey home by placing a bench on two tables.
According to Narainsami, he was watching television and had left to go to the bathroom. On his way back into the room he was confronted by four masked men, one being armed with a gun and another with a cutlass.
“When I open the bedroom door, me brace up with them four, they start to rough me up,” Narainsami told Stabroek News in an interview. According to the pensioner, who left Guyana in 1985 and has been returning every winter season, the men demanded cash from him. “Where is the money, Where is the money”, he said the armed men repeatedly asked him.
According, to Narainsami, he told the perpetrators that whatever money he had was in his pants. However, they were dissatisfied and kept on asking for more. He said he told the men, “I don’t have more,” and it was then that the bandit with the cutlass decided to broadside him several times about his body.
The men then held a gun to his head and he told them that he would borrow money when came to Guyana and pay it back when he returned to the US.
However, he said this seemed to aggravate the perpetrator more as he continued to beat him.
Meanwhile, also in the house at the time of the robbery was Samantha Williams, 23, a domestic worker, who was fast asleep in another room. The bandit carrying the gun entered the room and asked her, “If I know where this man does put he money,” and she replied in the negative.
He then asked, … “where is me money,” she said and she pointed to the table. He then noticed her phone under her bedsheet and tugged it away from her. The bandits escaped with US$300, $8000, three cellular phones and two torchlights.
