Just eight days after moving into their new home, a woman and her husband were robbed of cash and jewellery after four armed bandits invaded their abode on Saturday night and beat them.
Speaking to Stabroek News yesterday, Tulsidai Naghoo, the woman who was beaten and robbed, explained that she, along with her husband, Daveannand Naghoo and their two children, had moved into the Canal #2, West Bank Demerara home, eight days ago and they had just finished cleaning when they were attacked.
“Well it’s my uncle’s house and the people that used to live here moved out so we came from Yarrowkabra to live here and we de just finish cleaning and was sitting downstairs eating when they come,” the woman said, while explaining that sometime around 8:25 pm four men, all wearing masks, appeared from the back of the yard and pounced on the family.
“It was me, my husband, our eleven-month-old baby and our seven-year-old son were eating and they come out of nowhere and say how they get information that we have jewellery and money and that’s the reason they come,” the still distraught woman recalled to Stabroek News.
She said that she and her husband tried to convince the four men that they did not have any money and that they had only just moved into the house. “We try telling them we don’t have nothing because he don’t work and I does only make chips and sell to people so I don’t understand why they would think that we got all of that,” she added.
After her efforts to convince the four men that they did not have anything failed, Naghoo said that they forced her husband into the kitchen while she waited outside.
A few minutes later the men forced her and her two children into the same area where she said she saw her husband who was already bound and lying on the ground.
While two of the men kept her and her husband in the kitchen, another two went around and ransacked the entire house.
“We [her and her two children] went in and he [her husband] was on the ground and they kept demanding money and jewellery and they start beating he in his head but we didn’t have anything, we didn’t have anything to give them,” the woman recalled. She said the men kept up the assault on her husband for some fifteen minutes while her and her children watched on.
“Then they come to me and lash me in my head and I kept saying we don’t have anything,” she added, stating that one of the men then attacked her seven-year-old son.
“One of them lash he in his head with the gun and to talk where the money at and he start crying and he said `mommy let we talk’ and so I ask them to stop and I take off my earring and my marriage ring that I had on and I give them. We had about $25,000 around and we give them too along with some cellular phones,” she explained, while pointing out that after the men realized that they weren’t going to get anything else they escaped and left her and her husband tied up.
After the men left, her son quickly untied them and they alerted the neighbours who called the police. The family was then taken to the West Demerara Hospital where they were treated for minor injuries.
The police are still investigating and have not yet been able to apprehend any suspects.
