– made off with $1M in cash, quantity of jewellery
A 78-year-old woman is now left traumatised after she was beaten and robbed by three armed men who broke into her home on Saturday.
The female pensioner’s house
Based on information received, on the day in question at about 10:30h, Budhnie, popularly known as “Aunty Finey”, of Lot 39 Mon Repos Pasture, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was sitting on her verandah, when a black car bearing registration number PGG 5961 pulled up and a man exited.
The man then scaled the fence and ran towards the elderly woman and demanded money.
A granddaughter of the elderly woman told Guyana Times that the suspect who scaled the fence immediately began beating the woman, causing her to fall to the floor. As Budhnie collapsed, two other men exited the car and barged into her house.
The house was ransacked
“They run up and tell her pass the money and the jewellery or else we will kill you.”
Fearful for her life, the pensioner showed the men where the money was. The bandits subsequently took the money which amounted to $1 million and made their way to the lower flat of the wooden structure, where her “handicap” daughter was staying.
“They went downstairs…the daughter is not telling us what happened between her and them, but they took a flat-screen TV… and a quantity of jewellery”, she explained.
Guyana Times understands that the car used to execute the robbery made several stops to other family members, before making its final stop at the pensioner’s home.
“The car stopped at the first house, that is where her sister was living, and they were calling for inside, but the sister just peep through and told her sister-in-law this look like thief so she didn’t come out. She then went back inside and pick up the phone and called my mom. They then saw the car drive out, and come in back.”
“After that, they went to the other sister… but that one doesn’t really see good…”
Meanwhile, shortly after the robbery, the pensioner managed to raise an alarm and persons in the area went to her rescue. Several calls were made to the police, by the woman’s granddaughter said the ranks turned up on the scene the following day.
