Armed bandits last night invaded a Phrase Three Good Hope, East Coast Demerara house where they held a couple at gunpoint and carted off over $1M in valuables before escaping with their motor car.
Reports are that the incident unfolded around 9.45 pm at the house after Nikeita Deoroop, her husband, Kevin Ramsaroop, a taxi driver and their two-year-old daughter had already retired to bed.
Deoroop related to this newspaper last night that the men gained entry into the house by breaking a louvre window. She said she heard a strange noise and got up to enquire what it was when she was greeted by three men who were already in the house.
Deoroop said two of the men held her and Ramsaroop at gunpoint, while the other proceeded to ransack the house for cash and jewellery. She suspected that it was more than three bandits.
“They said ‘give we all the money and the jewellery’ and they told me if I move or do anything they gonna shoot my daughter”, Deoroop said.
The bandits carted off $400,000 in local and foreign currencies, a quantity of gold jewellery, cell phones, televisions and other electronics, she said.
The men then escaped in Ramsaroop’s Nissan Bluebird motor car, PSS 8984 which he plied his trade with. While all this was happening, the couple’s two-year-old daughter was asleep.
Deoroop said the child eventually woke up and she pleaded with the bandits to hold her daughter before she started to cry. They allowed her.
Following the incident, Deoroop said neighbours told her that they noticed the men scaling their fence to gained entry to the premise and they tried to call out to alert them but got no answer.
As a result, neighbours said they called the Vigilance Police Station and informed them what was happening but they failed to show up in time, Deoroop added.
“Had they (police) respond right away they coulda stop that car from leaving this area”, Deoroop said.
She said the police arrived after the bandits escaped.
