– businessman, wife beaten; neighbour shot
By: Raywattie Deonarine
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Terbani
Four armed bandits on Sunday evening invaded the home of a Lima Sands, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) businessman and carted off with over $1.8 million in cash and jewellery but not before assaulting the man and his wife.
In addition, a neighbour was shot as the men discharged two wounds in his direction as they made their way out of the businessman’s premises.
The businessman, Seunarine Terbani, also known as ‘Heighty’ told the Guyana Times that he was in a bond in his yard at about 19:30h when two men, both armed with handguns confronted him and started to demand cash and jewellery.
“The men attacked my wife when I was in the storeroom and she ran to me. I had two cases of beer in my hand and tried to fight the man. They had guns, so I put down the beer.”
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He further explained that he told the men who were also masked to leave his wife alone and deal with him instead. The bandits then took him upstairs and struck him multiple times on the head with a gun.
“When I reached upstairs, they hit me on the head, which burst open. I fell, and they started kicking me, asking where all the money was. I told them where the money was and said that it was all I had.”
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After collecting the money, the men ransacked the bedrooms and cabinets where they found a quantity of jewellery.
The still traumatised spouse, Melissa Thomas recalled that she was at the counter in the shop which is in the lower flat of the house counting money when the men confronted her brandishing a gun.
“My son was packing the freezer, and I was counting the money when the men ran towards me and pointed the gun at me. I threw all the money in the air and ran into the storeroom with my husband. The bandits started searching for money and then took him upstairs.”
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