Bandits rob businesswoman after trailing her to Internet café
A Georgetown businesswoman was on Tuesday trailed into East Ruimveldt, Georgetown and relieved of a large sum of money and other items by a group of gun-toting bandits.
The businesswoman’s car that was broken into by the gunmen
When contacted by this publication, the woman, Wanita Ashby, explained that she had gone to transact some business in the city, during which she had received a telephone call from her brother, who instructed her to uplift $800,000 he had sent from the interior.
Upon uplifting the money, Ashby said, she made several stops around Georgetown without realising that she was been followed.
“I was doing some business at GRA, and when I finish, I have a wash bay on the Front Road, so I came back to the wash bay, and my brother called me again and told me that somebody else supposed to send out some money at the same location…when I went to the money place, I did not get the money, so I ended up leaving with just the first set,” she explained.
However, at about 15:30h, Ashby said, she went back on the “Front Road”, and stopped at a friend’s house to use her internet café to call her brother. While so doing, her car’s alarm was triggered.
“I heard the little child say, ‘Aunty, these men break your car’, so when I run outside, I saw three of them… they had guns. They run through the alleyway, and the car they used was waiting for them on the other side”.
Ashby identified the getaway car as a white new model Premio. “I didn’t know these guys were trailing me until I run my cameras. I have cameras on my car. When I came out of the place, they weren’t any cars around…just two cars, and they weren’t the descriptions of the car the men used”.
Apart from the large sum of money, the men escaped with her passport, ID card, and driver’s licence. Meanwhile, a report was lodged with the Police, and detectives are in the process of reviewing the camera footage to identify the perpetrators.
