A 49-year-old goldsmith and his family have been left in a traumatized state after three armed bandits invaded their Westminster Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara home, on Saturday night.

Police Headquarters reported that the goldsmith was sitting on his veranda at around 20:45hrs when the three perpetrators – one armed with a gun and the others with knives – jumped his fence and kicked him to his face repeatedly.

The suspects then entered the house where they held the victim’s wife and two children hostage, demanding valuables and ransacking the house.

They stole a black Lenovo laptop computer valued at $100,000; two black Amazon electronic tablets total value at $40,000; a black iPhone S5 cellphone valued at $60,000; a BLU cellphone valued at $30,000; $50,000 in cash and a quantity of gold jewellery (value unknown at this time).

The suspects subsequently escaped on foot; investigation is ongoing.