| Sumimtra Hemwant displays injuries to her arm…as bandits terrorise, rob Mahaica coupleBy Latoya GilesBusinessman Rajhdeo Tahjapaul Seven heavily-armed bandits shot a businessman twice and inflicted a cruel cutlass beating on his wife during a brazen early morning robbery yesterday at the couple’s Unity, Mahaica home.Rajhdeo Tahjapaul, 53, who operates a trucking / delivery service,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, was shot to the shoulder and thigh.The man’s wife, 49-year-old Sumintra Hemwant,Brad Richards Red Wings Jersey, who witnessed the robbery and shooting was beaten with a cutlass, and received minor injuries.According to a police press statement, two of the men were armed with handguns, while the others had cutlasses.Up to press time no one had being taken into custody.Speaking with Kaieteur News yesterday,NFL Jerseys China Online, the visibly shaken woman said she firmly believes that the entire robbery was planned.Hemwant told Kaieteur News that it was customary for her husband to leave the house around 03:00hrs daily to deliver “greens” at Bourda Market.The woman explained that her husband got up around 02:00hrs, and woke her up, asking her to make some coffee for him.She said she began making the coffee but heard the dogs barking, however she ignored it.“I de making de coffee and meh husband de praying when we both hear the dogs barking…..but we didn’t take it for anything,” the woman recounted.Hemwant said her husband was about to open the front door, and she was a few feet behind him with the coffee in her hands, when she heard a loud noise.“I hear bang bang…..and I hear he hollering so I rush back to get meh daughter,” Hemwant said.The woman stated that after her husband was shot, she heard something like horses running. “After dem shoot he I hear dem run like horse up de steps.”She said once all the bandits were inside, that’s when the real terror began.They immediately started lashing her repeatedly about the body with a cutlass demanding that she hand over her valuables.Her husband who was shot twice was also beaten with a cutlass. The couple’s nine-year-old daughter bolted from the home during the attack, and ran to a neighbour’s house.The bandits quickly ransacked the four-bedroom house, searching for valuables. After grabbing cash and jewellery, estimated at close to a million dollars, the armed men also grabbed several pieces of clothing belonging to the injured businessman, before leaving the premises.Sumintra Hemwant said she managed to peer through a window,NFL Jerseys Cheap China, where she saw the men walking calmly away from home.“Dey walk very slow…..dey tek dem time ‘cause no police ain’t come..”After they (bandits) were gone, the woman said she managed to pull her husband up a flight of steps, until help came.“I get so confused I pull he up de steps cause I think dey coming back…..is meh neighbour help me take he to de hospital.”A police rank arrives with a tracker dogYesterday when this newspaper visited the man in the hospital,Kyle Korver Hawks Jersey, he said although he is a licenced firearm holder he was unable use any of his weapons. The man said this was the fourth time that he had been robbed.Stating that it was only three weeks ago when his daughter who resided overseas was visiting, armed gunmen on that occasion robbed them of a quantity of gold jewellery. The police are yet to make any arrests in that incident.No HelpSumimtra Hemwant yesterday said she was very displeased with the response from the police.According to the woman, neighbours who heard them screaming tried persistently to contact the police but got no response.Rajindra Surjdai, who lives a short distance from the couple said that he was awakened by a loud noise around 02:15 hrs yesterday.Surjdai said he was attempting to venture outside, but was prevented from doing so by his wife.The man said he heard the couple screaming for about 20 minutes while his wife tried calling the Mahaica Police Station.According to the neighbor, ranks from the Mahaica Police station arrived at the scene about four hours after the incident.The man said it was ranks from the Cove and John and Vigilance Stations who arrived promptly.He recalled that after he saw Sumimtra Hemwant run out the house screaming that they had tried to kill her husband, he ran over to assist.Surjdai,Deion Jones Falcons Jersey, along with the man’s wife, rushed him to the Georgetown Hospital where doctors quickly wheeled him to the operating theatre.Meanwhile, the woman opined that nurses at the Georgetown Hospital, needed to be trained in “grief management” because they were very rude to her.According to the woman, the nurses shouted at her when she fumbled to answer them.“Meh husband just get shoot…..I was confused so I couldn’t answer dem quick enough, dey get vex wid me,” explained the woman.****************************Shot sandpit owner…Wife placed on station bailThe police have placed the wife of a Crabwood Creek businessman on station bail, as they investigate the circumstances under which the man received a gunshot wound to the chest.Businessman Rickford Joseph, 37, had told investigators that he received the wound when bandits attacked his home and ended up shooting him in the chest after he prevented them from entering.Kaieteur News understands that the police released the woman, because doctors at the Georgetown Hospital have requested her signature as they were preparing her husband for surgery.“The doctors need her signature because she is the closest relative…” said a police source.The investigators still believe that the man may not be telling the truth, since he never reported any robbery at his home when he was questioned by police in a Berbice hospital shortly after the incident.Police in a press release stated that initial investigations revealed that Rickford Joseph was at the back of his yard emptying garbage when he heard an explosion and felt a burning sensation to his stomach.“He was taken to the Skeldon Hospital where he was treated for a gunshot injury and later transferred to the GPHC,” the statement said.Relatives are however claiming that Joseph was in the bottom flat of his house cleaning crabs, when the men reportedly attempted to invade his home.A close relative of the businessman who was at the hospital told Kaieteur News that the man barred the bandits from entering his home and he was shot.At the time of the incident the businessman’s wife and 16-year-old daughter were said to have been upstairs.****************************Teen’s sudden death…‘Lepto’ ruled out as doctor’s report remains outstandingThe relatives of 17-year-old Henrico Jerrick are still anxiously awaiting the doctor’s report on the post mortem which was performed on his remains some two weeks ago.When contacted yesterday, Chief Executive Officer of the Georgetown Public Hospital, Michael Khan said the report was expected back sometime yesterday but up to late in the evening it was not in his possession.However he noted that he knows for a fact that the teen did not die from Leptospirosis.The CEO however could not say what tests are being conducted on the samples which were taken from the teen’s remains during the post mortem.Mr. Khan further promised that he will make contact with the doctor who conducted the post mortem sometime later today so he would be in a better position to pronounce on the situation.Meanwhile the relatives have been calling for a thorough investigation into the teen’s death.There was some speculation that the teen died of leptospirosis while other suggested that the teen died of malaria.Initially the relatives said they were told that the teen was being treated for leptospirosis, and then they were told he was being treated for Malaria.On July 29 last, Jerrick a student of Bygeval Secondary school died while being treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.Initially the teen’s relatives said they were told that he was being treated for Leptospirosis but hours before he died they were told he was being treated for malaria. |
