A 42-year-old widow and mother of three was brutally beaten and robbed of her working bag containing more than $80,000, her cellular phone and documents, after being intercepted by three young men on bicycles, at Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara, last week.

The victim who works at a Regent Street store in Georgetown, related that the ordeal occurred around 21:15 hrs on December 11.
She had just gotten off a bus and was walking along Dr. Carter Road, on her way home, when the bandits pounced on her.
One of them choked her and in a cruel voice, ordered her: “Give meh all wha yuh gat!”
She said her bag was clutched under her arm and she held on to it for life.
The robber resorted to wrapping her hair around his hand and began to violently thug at her hair.
At that stage one of the others threw a chopper towards him, suggesting that he should use it.

“But I thank God that he did not use it,” the beleaguered mother recalled. Instead, he threw her onto the ground, causing her to suffer injury to her lower back, along with other minor abrasions.
As she fell, he jerked the bag free, and jumped onto his bicycle and made off with it, joined by his two accomplices.
Also contained in the bag were her Identification Card; NIS cards for herself and her now dead husband and birth certificates for herself and children; all of which she had cause to use earlier.

The woman claimed that the money, of which she was robbed, was intended to buy a piece of furniture and also to paint her house for the Christmas.
“In total it was $84,000 and it was all that I had (including one week’s pay), so I was using it guardedly,” the still badly traumatised woman said, as she recollected her ordeal. She was also still crying out for pains suffered to her lower back.
After the men rode away, neighbours came out to enquire. They claimed they had heard the sound of a metal hitting the road and wondered what it was.

The widow reported the matter to the Vigilance Police Station, where a rank assured her that he was going to look for the robbers and bring them in.
Unfortunately, however, to date, no arrest has been made and she has heard nothing more from the policeman or the station.
The victim said she and her children are bracing themselves for less than a Happy Christmas, following the robbery.