A SATURDAY evening with friends at Mojo’s turned ugly for 24-year-old Curdel Glasgow, a Government Information  Agency (GINA) Communications Officer, after he was violently attacked, beaten and robbed by persons unknown, and had to be rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) for treatment.

Lashed in the face with a bottle, slapped and kicked about the head and face by three men after falling helpless to the ground, Glasgow became unconscious, and for several minutes lay on the ground while unidentified person/persons rifled his trousers pockets, taking away $34,000 and two cellular phones.

Removed from a pool of blood in which he lay inert for several minutes, the injured Glasgow was taken to hospital by his friends, and examined by doctors at the institution, who diagnosed that he has sustained a burst blood vessel in the right ear.

Glasgow is at home recuperating from the injuries he sustained to the ear and other wounds and abrasions about the face. It is likely he would be unable to resume working for some time yet.
Yesterday, the injured youngster recounted his harrowing experience to the Sunday Chronicle.
Glasgow recalled visiting the night club in company of other friends who are all members of the President’s Youth Award Guyana (PYARG). 
He said they were occupying the VIP Lounge, and after a while it became hot, so he looked around and saw a curtain (blind) which he decided to draw in order to get some breeze.

In so doing, he incurred the wrath of someone he still does not know. He said that as he pulled the curtain, someone rushed up to him from the other side and rudely snapped, “You’ll PPP feel you could do anything!”  The man instantly hit him in his face with a bottle. Falling to the ground, he struggled to his feet and a scuffle ensued.

Glasgow said his attacker, a ‘red-skinned’ person, was quickly joined by a heavy-set, dark-complexioned man with plaits in his hair, and he also slapped Glasgow in the face, causing him to fall to the ground. 
“While still on the ground, before I quite knew what was happening, I was violently kicked by about three persons. They kicked me on the head and in the face, and I (lost consciousness).”

His friends tried to reach him, but the crowd was fast closing in, he said.  He realized at one point that someone was going through his pockets, and he tried uttering a friend’s name, at which point the intruder departed.  When his friends reached him and were preparing to take him to hospital, they realized that both his pockets were empty; both his cellular phones and $34,000 had been stolen from him in the commotion.