Two bandits armed with a gun and cutlass pounced on an Edinburgh Village, East Bank Berbice Imam on Sunday evening robbing him of his late wife’s jewellery and cash.
Imam Shameer Khan Rajab, 69, who operates a shop at Lot 168 Edinburgh Scheme, East Bank Berbice, explained that he and a friend who resides with him and his son were sitting in the shop area of the lower flat of his house when at around 8.30 pm on Sunday two persons pounced on them.
He said that as soon as he attempted to sit on a chair he heard a gun crank behind him “he’s a left-hander and he put it to my head and he say get up, get up and come in and don’t keep any noise” while the second perpetrator armed with a cutlass followed behind.
According to Rajab, the bandits began to order him to “pass over all the money.” He said, he took out his wallet which had $70,000 and gave it to one of the bandits telling him that this was all he had. “I tell he lately we get two dead coming from the yard here and we na got nuff money and so, this is all what we have left here.”
However, the perpetrator then turned to his writing desk where the drawer was locked and questioned “wah you got inside deh.”
According to Rajab, “I tell he `man me got papers and so inside deh’ and he say `get the key, get the key.’” After the drawer was opened, the bandits took out the jewellery valued a total of $500,000.
“When it open them start scramble everything and them get away… Them had the gun pushing down on me head hard so me na really get to look at them properly”
Rajab lost his wife earlier this year to cancer while his bedridden sister-in-law who was residing with him died late last year. He said, the jewellery belonged to the two women and he was keeping it for his son and the future generation of his family.
As of yesterday afternoon the police were continuing the investigation but no arrest had been made.
