TWO men are assisting police with their investigations into an armed robbery committed on a Port Mourant, Corentyne family on Saturday evening.Reports are that two men entered the home of Harnauth Jaiprashad, 65, a retired security officer, and his wife Parmini, 62, a retired head teacher, and took away cash, jewellery and other items. At time of the robbery, several persons were at the Jaiprashad home, including their daughter Roshmine (only name given).

Roshmine told the Guyana Chronicle that one of the robbers was armed with a shotgun and the other had a revolver and a cutlass. Family members were made to lie on the floor while the two unmasked men demanded money and jewellery.

“They tell us that they didn’t come to stay long, and that they didn’t come to hurt anybody; they just come for the gold and the money. They put everybody to lie down, and told me to give them the gold and all the money; so I give them the gold and the money,” Roshmine related.

Roshmine said she was taken into one of the bedrooms and made to hand over her parents’ NIS money alone with an undisclosed quantity of gold jewellery. “The one with the shotgun he remain in the room, and he continue to search the room. He tell me, ‘go and lie down, don’t look me in my face.’ When he came out, they asked whose car (was) parked out there, and I told them my husband. And when he ask where my husband, I said that he gone out and he gone with the car key. My husband right there lie down on the floor, but I know that they would want the car to get away with,” she said.

After the 10-minute ordeal, the men left, but not before picking up three cellular phones, two laptops and other items, along with the cash and jewellery.

Police at the Whim police Station arrived on the scene about five minutes after they were summoned.

On Sunday morning, action on information, they were able to recover two of the laptops and a cellular phone. Investigations into the robbery continue.