FOUR men were yesterday taken into custody, assisting the police with investigations into the brutal beating and robbery of a 60-year-old woman at Patentia, West Bank of Demerara.Reports say the woman, known as ‘Auntie Baby’ lives alone, but has a son and daughter-in-law residing in the United States, who would normally send money for her.
On Sunday, shortly before midnight, bandits entered the woman’s home and battered her for almost two hours, banging her head while demanding that she must say ‘where the money is.’ But as the woman insisted that she did not have any money, the beatings continued until she lay unconscious on the floor.
Fearing that she was dead, the men fled the scene.
The woman was discovered early yesterday morning by neighbours who thought it strange that she had not gotten up and commenced moving around. On checking they found the badly bruised and battered woman in her house. She was rushed to the West Demerara Regional Hospital.
Police are continuing their investigations.

(By Shirley Thomas)