Kuru Kururu residents call for frequent Police patrol
Residents of Kuru Kururu, on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway, have expressed concern due to the increased number of crimes in the area; as such, a call has been made for more frequent Police patrols in the evening.
One resident, 54-year-old Glen Ramdass, was on Tuesday evening attacked by two armed bandits as he was about to make his way into his Lot 33 Kuru Kururu home.
The man said that at about 20:10h, he opened his gate and was about to drive in his car when two dark skinned males, armed with guns, pounced on him and demanded that he lie down on the ground.
Adamant to do so, the man began shouting “bandits” to alert his family members.
His reputed wife, Diana Thakurdin, shared with this newspaper that she and her
Kuru Kururu resident, Glen Ramdass, who was attacked by bandits
three daughters were at home watching the news with their doors wide open when she heard her husband shouting in the yard.
“We hear he holler ‘bandit, bandit close up de door’ so we close up de door,” the woman recalled. She added that her nephew, who was over at their house at the time, grabbed two cutlasses and ran out to rescue his uncle.
Seeing this, the two bandits ran for cover, forgetting they were in the middle of a robbery and armed with a gun.
Thakudin explained that a report was subsequently made to the Kuru Kururu Police Outpost, which resulted in the officers visiting the area.
The woman said she believes that the men did not have a real gun since they did not hurt her husband. Nevertheless, she said, “We would like Police patrol in the night because in here got a lot of strange people walking up and down who you won’t even know because them two people he (Glen Ramdass) said he never see them.”
Neighbours also joined the call for more frequent Police presence in the area.
Earlier this month, at about 04:30h, the lifeless body of 46-year-old legal clerk Gregory Frank, also called “Wayne”, was found lying face down in a pool of blood in the sitting room of his home at Lot 686 Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke/Linden Highway.
The man was suspected to have been killed during a robbery.
A post-mortem examination later performed on the body of Frank determined that the man died as a result of asphyxiation due to compression injury to the neck compounded by blunt trauma to the head.
