-escape with $1.6M in cash, jewellerry

A FAMILY of three is tramautised following an early morning armed robbery at their Lot 463 Fourth Street, Herstelling, East Bank Demerara home, where four men kicked down their front door and carted off money and jewellery.Speaking with this newspaper,Vidyawattie Harrinath said it was about 02:00 hs Thursday when they heard the glass of the front window shattered followed by the banging of the rear door.
She related that at the time,they were on the ground floor of their two-storey house and they dropped to the ground in fear.

By then, the wooden door was kicked down and four men entered their house and when asked why they were there,one said “Is the police, we come to search.” The 22-year-old reported that one bandit held her and her mother, while three others took her father upstairs after demanding money and jewellery.

The victims pointed out that they were told to keep their heads down and not look at the faces of the criminals.She was struck behind the head with a gun when she began screaming. She stated that the men spent about 20 minutes inside the house. Vidyawattie said the bandits ransacked the house and found the jewellery which amounted to about $1M and the cash they had which totalled $640,000.

She disclosed that during the home invasion the robbers hit her father repeatedly on the shoulder, stomach and back with a cutlass and a gun. Meanwhile, Commander of ‘A’ Division,Clifton Hicken,told the Guyana Chronicle that they have obtained footage from a neighbour and they are in the process of enhancing the images to identify the licence plates of the two cars used in the commission of the robbery. He added that they are also enhancing the images to identify the four robbers, two of whom were armed with two guns. While the victims were not pleased with the police response, Hicken said the police responded in a timely manner and searched for evidence.
However, no arrest has been made.