Two bandits used the name of a Lodge businesswoman's 14-year-old daughter to gain entry into their home on Wednesday night and robbed the family of a lap top computer and other items after terrorizing them with guns and a cutlass.

  

Bandits terrorizing them with guns and a cutlass.

The woman, Shoronda Caesar, of Lot H Chapel Street, Lodge last evening told Stabroek News that the bandits left with a DVD player, lap top computer, a bag containing $15,000 and personal documents, including a driver's licence and passport and a quantity of jewellery.

 

A release from the police said the bandits robbed the businesswoman of some $440,000 in cash and other items.

The woman said that she was asleep at around 9:15 pm when she was awakened by the voices of her mother and daughter, Christel, hollering "Thief! Thief!".

She said she got up and was about to open the room door when a masked man armed with a cutlass pushed the door open and fired a chop causing her to fall back on the bed. The woman said that the man then told her not to make any sound and another bandit then came into the room with her mother with a gun aimed to her head. She said that her mother was placed next to her and the other bandit then brought her daughter from the kitchen where she had run to hide. The bandit placed a cutlass to the child's neck when he took her into the room.

The men then demanded jewellery and the woman said she immediately took off her jewellery and gave it to them.

"They told me, 'this is not all - where the chain you does wear.' I told them it is on the dresser top," the woman said. She said they told her they knew her well. The men then left the three females in the room and went into the hall where they removed the other items before leaving.

Caesar said after the men left she was told that while her mother and daughter were watching television someone rapped on the door and a male voice called for "Christel." The child went to the window and asked the man what he wanted since she did not know him and he told her that a boy from D'Urban Street had sent a message to her. She asked him who was the boy and what was the message but the man did not answer and it was then her grandmother went to open the door.

Sensing that something was wrong the child pushed the door back but by that time the bandit had already pushed his hand through the opening armed with a gun. The child and her grandmother then ran into the kitchen hollering for thief.

Meanwhile, the police said at around 22:20 the same night four men, two of whom were armed with handguns, robbed Boodnarine Singh of Grant Street Joseph, Pomeroon River, of a quantity of jewellery at Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara.

The release said that investigations have revealed that Singh was among 13 other persons in a minibus bound for Lethem from Georgetown. At Mc Doom the driver encountered problems with the vehicle and had to stop. All the passengers had exited the bus and Singh reportedly moved away from them to answer a phone call when he was held up and robbed by the suspects who discharged a round as they fled.