Detailing how her home had been broken into and her belongings stolen, distraught pensioner Angelica Rodriguez of “M29” Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara said the incident occurred at some time between 07:00hrs and 14:00hrs on Thursday.
The 67-year-old who lives alone had left her home at around 06:30hrs that Thursday to attend to a sick relative, but was later contacted by her son, who asked if she had left a door open.
Responding in the negative, the woman rushed home to find a ladder braced at the back of her house, and a window and the door wide open. Guyana Times was told that the perpetrator had used a ladder to climb onto a shed in the elderly woman’s yard, before breaking a window and entering the home.
The woman and her son entered the home to find it completely ransacked, and a number of her belongings, including two cell phones, a weeding machine and an undisclosed sum of cash, missing.
This newspaper was told that another resident of the area was recently robbed, and the alleged perpetrator — from Martyrs’Ville, Mon Repos, ECD — was caught and charged with the offence. But following the fire that demolished the Camp Street Prison, the man was released from prison on bail, and has reportedly been seen lurking in the area. This was reported to the Police, who have now launched an investigation into the matter.
Only recently, 72-year-old Mohamed Subhan and his 83-year-old bedridden wife Khairool Subhan — of Craig, East Bank Demerara (EBD) — were attacked by a group of bandits. In that incident, the husband was awoken by noises coming from the door which leads to a room in the upper flat of the house that he and his wife reside in alone.
Upon inspecting, he noticed a crowbar stuck by his bedroom door, as a robber was making efforts to extract the bolts and gain entry into the room.
Subhan immediately called for assistance from his neighbours, and telephoned his son, television personality Neaz Subhan, who resides in Diamond, East Bank Demerara.
This publication understands that when the elder Subhan made calls for his neighbours, the bandit who was attempting to break in his bedroom fled the scene.
Prior to that incident, a 54-year-old woman and her 81-year-old mother of Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD) were robbed of more than $100,000 in cash, along with gold jewelry, in a daring daylight attack.
