A Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara, family was on Wednesday beaten and robbed by two armed bandits.
Reports indicate that at about 03:00h, businessman Ravindra Persaud, also known as “Ravo” was awakened after he heard a loud crashing sound in his Lot 8 West Meten-Meer-Zorg, Railway View home.
He said that upon investigating, he was confronted by two armed bandits who demanded cash and valuables. “As I was going to the living room, I saw the two men coming towards me and they point a gun to my head and ask me for the money and jewellery,” Persaud said.
The businessman explained that he only had $45,000 and he handed it over to the men but they were not satisfied.
“I gave them the money but I have no jewellery so when I told them that, they told me to bring my son, that they will kill him. Me and my wife started to scream and they told us to shut up, if not, they will kill all of us,” he explained.
Persaud told Guyana Times that after the men threatened to kill his son, he and his wife stopped screaming. He related that the men began beating him since they did not believe that there was no jewellery in the house.
“They cuff me up in my belly and beat me up because I had no jewellery to give them and they pointed a gun to my son’s head,” the visibly traumatised man stated.
He said that the men became angry at the small amount of money they had and began to fire shots about the house.
Persaud’s wife, Ruby, told this newspaper that the men entered the house through a small window in their washroom.
“When they were gone and we check to see how they got in, we see the window in our washroom broken so that is where they came in,” she explained.
Ruby went on to explain that she, along with her husband, own a grocery shop and beer garden. Police have since launched an investigation into the incident.