Gunmen beat, rob Corentyne family

Kick-down-the-door banditry

…escape with $1M cash, jewelry

Armed bandits — one brandishing a gun, two sporting cutlasses, and another armed with a wicked piece of wood — forced their way into the Corentyne home of Anthony and Shanta Dudnauth at Lot 309 Area ‘R,’ Ankerville Port Mourant at about 20:00h on Thursday; and after terrorizing the family, duct-taped its members and carted off more than $1 million in cash and jewelry in escaping.

A section of the ransacked house at Port Mourant

Shanta Dudnauth told this publication that she and her husband, her mother-in-law and the couple’s nine-year-old son were watching television when the men entered the home.
They took Anthony Dudhnath captive and instructed him to lie on his back and put his hands in the air. Whereupon, he was lashed several times on his legs with the piece of wood.

The four family members the bandits assaulted during the robbery

Her mother-in-law was then dragged into a room, where she was told to remain as they ransacked the house.
“They cut off my top and pull off my bra; I was completely naked. They say they gon rape me if I don’t give them the money,” the woman detailed.
After making repeated demands for money, the bandits were told that there might be some in the pockets of Anthony’s pants, which were hanging on a rack.

The house the bandits went into

The men departed with a laptop, several cellular phones, an undisclosed sum of cash that was in Anthony’s pants pocket, and more than $1 million in jewelry.
Before the men left, they duct-taped the hands and legs of family members, and made good their escape. It is believed that they went towards the heavy overgrowth next to the beach.
Dudnauth said the entire ordeal lasted for about 15 minutes. She said the bandits gained access to the premises by cutting the eastern section of the wire fence, and may have also used that opening to escape.
The Police are investigating this incident.