A Warren Village, Corentyne couple is now traumatised after two bandits invaded their premises on Sunday evening.
Liloutie Baker, also known as ‘Kamo,’ 68, told Stabroek News that one of the men ended up in a struggle with her husband, Franklyn Baker, also known as ‘Frankie,’ 58, and attempted to cut his throat with a cutlass.
Both bandits, were masked and also wore hoodies. While one was wielding a cutlass, the other had a gun.
Liloutie said the attack occurred after Franklyn, a ranger, decided that he would head out to check on a watchman around 7 pm.
The man opened the gate of their Lot 19 Warren Village, Corentyne property and was about to leave with his motorcycle when the bandit with a cutlass fired a chop and ordered him back into the yard. “And them a push in back Frankie in the yard and Frankie say ‘Wah happen to ayo bai? Wah ayo a do?’ And he (the bandit) say go in the so-and-so yard.”
Liloutie said Franklyn sustained a minor injury to his shoulder as a result of the first chop “and them hold down Frankie and Frankie a fight and Frankie a holler.”
She recalled that it was then that the bandit attempted to cut her husband’s throat. “He hold the cutlass and go fa cut out my husband neck and me start beg he and me say ‘Ow, ayo na cut out my husband neck. Ayo na kill am.’ But Frankie fight and he hold the cutlass, he na loose the cutlass for dead and the other deh pon me with the gun,” she related to this publication.
She said the men ordered her to hand over “the gold and money” but they repeatedly told them that they did not have any. As a result, they ordered them to take off the jewellery they were wearing at the time.
She said the bandit armed with a gun then rushed further into their premises since she had fallen to the ground. He asked the lad living with the couple “where the gold and money?”
However, after the young man informed the bandit that he had no idea where it was he then attempted to enter the house, where the woman’s daughter was sleeping.
Meanwhile, according to Franklyn, his brother, who resides a short distance away, heard his screams “and he run out with a cutlass and he knock it on the canter and then them (the bandits) run out back.”
The bandits were able to cart off a Samsung Galaxy cellular phone valued at $40,000, two gold earrings valued at $20,000, a gold bangle valued at $80,000 and another cellular phone valued at $50,000.
The Bakers, who have resided at the location for over 24 years, have never experienced such an ordeal before.
Police were still investigating up to yesterday afternoon and no arrest had been made.
According to information gathered by this newspaper, residents saw the perpetrators walking through the street from the main road after exiting a car heading towards the Bakers’ residence mo-ments before the robbery.
In the wake of the attack, residents made an appeal for authorities to clear the bushes in the village. One woman said, “The bush so tall if me go inside you can’t see me and every time you ask them, them na do nothing.”
The residents are calling on the Neighbourhood Democratic Council and the Regional Democratic Council to look into the situation immediately as they are more fearful now in light of the robbery.
