An Islington jeweller is now nursing two broken legs after he jumped about eight feet from his verandah to escape from two armed bandits who attempted to invade his premises on Friday morning.
His wife, Ramona Hussain, 52, who operates a jewellery business in the New Amsterdam Market, and of Islington Public Road, East Bank Berbice, in an interview with Stabroek News, explained, that on Friday around 7 am, her husband, Zainool Hussain, 54, ventured downstairs to feed their cats when the two armed men attacked him.
According to her, one of the masked bandits was armed with a gun while the other was armed with a long knife. “He started to scream but they gun butt him to stop and ask him for money so he told them the money upstairs but when I heard he screamed I peeped out and ran to lock the door so when they lead him up the stairs the door was locked”.