Man
forced to jump
15 ft.
through window…
As
bandits attack Adelphi house
“I
tried to call the police from my cell phone and the
number kept ringing out,” he said
The
caretaker of a house was forced to jump 15 feet to the ground in
his bid to escape five armed bandits who attacked the
East Canje home and who made off with $250, 000 early
yesterday morning.
Godfrey Waddy
said he was on the upper flat when he heard a knocking sound at a
window at around 01:45hrs.
Waddy told
Kaieteur News that he got up, switched on a light and went to the
front window. Peering out, he saw a man dressed in a camouflage
shirt and white short trousers standing on the road.
Not knowing
that there were bandits on the landing at the side of the house
trying to break the window, Waddy said he called out to his sister
Carlette Williams who lives next door. “I asked her if my
brother-in-law was at home. She said no and I called a relative Dandis
Samaroo
who is staying in the lower flat,” he said. As he spoke to his
sister and other relative, Waddy said the sound at the window
continued.
Then he
heard the sound of glass falling and realised that the bandits
were trying to get into the house.
“I open
the window in the back room and jumped through it. It is about 15
feet off the ground. When I land, I get up and scaled the fence
and head over to my sister,” Waddy said.
Kaieteur
News understands that four men, three of whom were
armed, were seen on the platform to the house. They appeared
unmasked.
The woman
downstairs was screaming. “They start to fire some shots and
then I did not hear her screaming anymore. We thought that she was
dead. After about an hour the men left,” he said.
“I tried
to call the police from my cell phone and the number kept ringing
out,” he said.
They
subsequently discovered that US$1,030 was missing from Guru
Parboo,
a resident of the United States of America , who has been sharing
the upper flat with Waddy.
Parboo's
driver's license, social security card and his employment card
were also stolen. Waddy,s wallet with $41,000 was taken as well.
Parboo came
to Guyana on February 4th and is scheduled to return to the USA on
February 20th. He was at the time in Georgetown , where he went to
uplift his suitcases.
Dandis Samaroo
said that the men kicked open the door
to the apartment in which
she is staying in the building.
“They tell
me to be quiet and they had some long thing in their hands. They
tell me to hand over the money and jewellery. But what save me was
when a phone start ringing.”
Carletta
Williams said that from her home, she saw the men as they
ransacked some sections of the house.
“I feel is
a set up, because they did not take anything else only the money.
They left the TV, VCR and so many other things,” she said.
Waddy
said that the owner for the house lives overseas.
Wednesday,
February 16, 2005