Two caught red-handed robbing and stabbing victim
– had trailed victim in minibus from G/T to West Dem.
A Senior Superintendant of Police saved two bandits from a sound thrashing yesterday, after they robbed a miner, who had just disembarked a minibus on the Pourderoyen Public Road, West Coast Demerara (WCD). The two men were chased down by residents who had witnessed the robbery, and thankfully for them, they managed to make it to safety outside the yard of Senior Superintendent Maxine Graham. But by then the men had already received some blows. “I had to save the day. Even though they committed the act, as a police officer, I could not sit down and see the residents beat and kill them,” the police official told this newspaper.
Snr. Supt. Maxine Graham
The robbery victim, Clint Gunput, 25, of Lot 6 Samaroo Dam Pourderoyen WCD was stabbed by the two men who were armed with knives at around 14:30hrs. He sustained injuries to the abdomen and has been admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Kaieteur News understands that the bandits had been trailing Guput and his pregnant wife from Georgetown. According to reports, one of the bandits boarded the same bus as the couple in the city. Apparently he had his eyes on a gold chain Guput was wearing and contacted his accomplice to assist him with acquiring his target. As the minibus was making its way along the East Bank thoroughfare, the bandit requested that the driver stop at Mc Doom to pick up a friend. When the bus stopped at McDoom, the other bandit joined the bus which then proceeded along its route. Gunput requested to be dropped off at Samaroo Dam Pourderoyen WCD. The bandits also exited the minibus and began stabbing their victim. They relieved him of a gold chain he was wearing and jumped back into the said minibus, which appeared to have been purposefully waiting on them, before speeding off.
Clint Gunput who was stabbed by the bandits
Public-spirited citizens, who were in the vicinity responded and went to the assistance of the victim, who was later, rushed to the GPHC in an ambulance. The bus was chased by a group of villagers on motorbikes after they saw what had occurred. They forced the bus to stop, took the men out and dealt them a sound thrashing. The blows were so much that the men desperately tried to run away. The bandits managed to escape on foot but were cornered while they were running towards the yard of Senior Superintendant of Police, Maxine Graham. Miss Graham came out upon hearing the commotion and like a true law enforcement officer she intervened and saved the hapless bandits. Miss Graham added that the men choose the wrong day to strike, because all the youths from the community would usually be at home on Sundays. The bandits are currently in police custody assisting with investigations.