Two men were Wednesday remanded to prison for robbing a Corentyne family who had several overseas-based Guyanese as guests at the time of the attack on Saturday evening.
Ifraz Madeen also known as ‘Fire’, 29, unemployed of Lot 8 Number 73 Village, Corentyne, and Vikash Singh also known as ‘Crane’, 32, a labourer of Number 67 Village, Corentyne, were charged jointly with five counts of Robbery under Arms.
The men are accused of robbing Ranica Hardeo, 47, of Lot 3 Number 68 Village, Corentyne; Hemnauth Madhoo, 51, a labourer; Fazina Madhoo, 39, an overseas-based Guyanese; Khushiram Premnauth, 19, an overseas based Guyanese; and Shushela Devi Madhoo, 51, of Lot 3 Number 68 Village, Corentyne.
The men appeared at the Number 51 Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday y before Magistrate Alex Moore where they were not required to plead to the charges.
As such they were remanded to prison and will return to court on November 8.
Hardeo also known as ‘Shanti’, had explained to Stabroek News that on Friday last she picked up her son and some other relatives at the airport and returned with them to her Corentyne residence.
Around 2 am on Saturday, a noise was heard coming from outside of the house. According to the woman, they paid no attention to it and went back to sleep, but it was around 6 am that they discovered that a window had been broken “and then me see they wrench out the board from the wall to try to get in the house but them na get in,” she relayed.
She said they did not file a police report but went about their business since they had some errands to run.
It was around 8.30 pm on Saturday that the perpetrators returned to the house where there was a small gathering of relatives at the time. Three of the men armed with two guns and one knife entered the yard while a fourth who was armed with a gun stood guard outside. The three men then gathered the occupants together and ordered them to hand over whatever cash and valuables they had in their possession. “Them bore me hand here with the knife to take out the bangle,” the woman stated.
As her son handed the men his wallet, he pleaded with them to leave them alone since that was all he had. However, one of the perpetrators then grabbed her overseas relative’s two-year-old child and threatened that if she (overseas relative) did not bring the “money and gold,” they would go away with the child.
This threat prompted a male relative to break away and run outside where he began to scream for help causing the perpetrators to hasten their escape with the items they had secured at that time.
The men were able to cart off one Samsung Galaxy cellular phone valued $50,000, one pair of gold earrings valued $56,000, one gold bangle valued $70,000, two gold and diamond finger rings valued $400,000, one gold bangle valued $100,000 along with six gold bangles valued $360,000, one gold finger ring valued $50,000, one Samsung cellular phone valued $48,000, $105,000 in Guyana currency and US$350.
