Businessman overjoyed as daughter escapes from kidnappers, alive and well
The search came to a halt on a positive note last evening at around 20:00h after 21-year-old Roreema Dookie escaped from her abductors unharmed.

According to Dookie, one of her abductor’s girlfriend went into the room where she was being kept and began questioning her.

“She come in and ask which one of them I belong to and before I could try and explain, she went and got a window pane,” she stated.

There was some commotion as Dookie tried to get away from the woman.

This attracted the attention of neighbours who, upon realising who she was, grabbed her and took her to the East La Penitence Police Station.

She added that at no time was she harmed or harassed by the men who took her. According to her, the men, whose faces were covered at all times, grabbed her after her class at the Business School on Wednesday evening at around 20:00 h and took her to a house where they locked her in a bedroom.

Dookie was unable to say where she was being held as she said when he left the house there was a power outage in the area.

“I was very scared but I tried to be brave through the entire thing.”

Dookie also pointed out that she was taken by surprise when the men grabbed her but she cooperated as she was afraid that they would harm her. She added that she had never noticed the strange characters hanging around the school before nor had she seen anyone following her at any time.

Relatives said that demands were made for ransom but none was paid.

Dookie’s father, well-known bar owner, Beharry Dookie, known as “Natoo” of Lamaha and Pike Street, Kitty, was overjoyed at his daughter’s safe return.

He told this newspaper that words could not express just how he felt to have his daughter safe and sound.

This newspaper could not confirm whether Dookie’s boyfriend, Jewel Oudkerk, who was with her at the time of the incident, was released from the Kitty Police Station where he was taken Wednesday night.

On Wednesday night, Dookie was taken at gunpoint by three men after her class at the Business School.

Her boyfriend, who she said put up a fight, was hit on the head several times.

This newspaper paper understands that as Dookie was about to enter her boyfriend’s car the three men charged towards them, seizing her and placing her in a car.

Oudkerk of Annandale, East Coast Demerara, was treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital before taken into custody.

Dookie had only returned from overseas two days prior to the incident.

Dookie’s bar was the scene of a brutal attack in which four persons were killed on September 25, 2003, after gunmen walked in and opened fire indiscriminately with assault rifles.

Those killed were Gavin Narine, Joy Arjune, Lloyd Singh and a Custom’s Broker.