Bandits beat, terrorise poultry farmer, family

Three armed men pretending to be customers executed a daring robbery on a West Coast Demerara (WCD) poultry farmer and his family. The incident occurred at about 18:30h Wednesday evening.

Reports are a heavily tinted white motor car bearing registration number, PSS 7126 drove up in front of the Razack family home at Lot 205 Parafield, Leonora, WCD and one man exited.

He walked towards the house and enquired the price for 50 pounds of chicken. At the time, the owner of the business was sitting on sofa having his dinner, while a family friend was in the hammock.

The businessman’s wife was attending to dishes in the kitchen and his son, Abdool Razack, was in the house. However, upon giving the man the price for the chicken, he went back to the car and another man, acting as if he was going to pay for the chicken walked towards the house.

As he took out the money, he also whipped out a gun and held the businessman at gunpoint. The other bandit also held the family friend, Rohit at gunpoint.

By then, a third man joined them and ordered the duo into the house. In the house, the businessman, his wife, son and the family friend were ordered to lie on the ground as the bandits demanded money.

Guyana Times was told that the businessman held out that he did not have money at home due to the fact that he had purchased new stock two days ago.

This, however, did not go down well with the men who then threatened to kill the businessman and his wife if they did not cooperate. The son, out of fear of losing his parents, agreed to hand over the money and jewellery they had at home.

As the young man headed into the upper flat of the house, one of the men accompanied him while the others held the other three victims hostage. The young Razack reportedly handed over an undisclosed sum of money and a quantity of jewellery.

The men then relived that victims of the jewellery they were wearing at the time, cash they had in their possession, mobile phones and other personal items including the keys to the family friend’s car. The three men then exited the house, boarded the waiting motor car and sped away.

After the men left, the victims raised an alarm. Rohit, the family friend, told Guyana Times that the armed men gun butted the businessman several times to the head after he refused to hand over the money.

In addition, he stated that after the men left, the businessman drove to the Leonora Police Station where he made a report.

The Police have since visited the house and took statements from the victims. They have since launched an investigation into the robbery.