A 66-year-old pensioner is still reeling from fear after a known “junkie” attempted to break into her house around midnight on Monday.
The victim has been identified as Rajkumarie Singh, who lives alone in her Uitvlugt New Scheme, West Coast Demerara (WCD) home.
The suspect who attempted to break into the pensioner’s home
Guyana Times understands that the suspect’s attempts were futile after he was thwarted by personnel from the Delta Security Firm.
Singh related to this newspaper that she activated her alarm system and retired to bed sometime after 23:00h on Monday evening but was awakened by the sound of the alarm about 30 minutes later.
The woman said she then received a call from the security firm after the motion on the alarm system was triggered sometime around 00:12h. At the time, the pensioner was unsure of what was happening and indicated same to the security personnel who informed her that an Armed Response Team was dispatched to her home.
While on the phone with the security firm, Singh said she heard noises coming from her veranda, which has a step leading up to the main access door to her house.
She explained that while the door and windows are grilled, there is a small opening in the wall for air ventilation and that the suspect pushed his hand through the space as he attempted to reach for the door lock.
Instead, he knocked over a bottle of liquid hand soap that was on a nearby sink and this alerted the woman that someone was trying to get into the house.
The woman further stated that after failing to gain entry into the house, the suspect stayed there for some time and was making sounds in an attempt to intimidate her.
After sometime, the response team arrived and observed the suspect on the veranda. However, upon noticing the vehicle approaching the house, he ran into the bushes at the back of the elderly woman’s home.
The officers attached to the security firm gave chase and managed to apprehend the man. After giving the assurance that it was safe to come out, Singh went downstairs where the captured perpetrator was and she identified him as a known junkie called “Sherwin”, who had previous broken into her home on three occasions and was convicted each time.
He was reportedly released from prison recently.
The pensioner believes the man had come this time to harm her since he had left behind a knife and a pair of scissors, among other items, which includes a beer bottle and a box of matches.
“He may have wanted to kill me with all them things he had… But thank God for life and thank God for Delta. They were with me throughout this whole thing, talking to me and updating me until the guys them come,” Singh related.
The suspect has since been handed over to the Police at the Leonora Police Station. In addition to the items that were found at the scene, the Police also discovered a bicycle hidden in the bushes in front of a nearby empty lot.
It is believed that the cycle belonged to the suspect since the victim said this is his modus operandi from previous attacks.
