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Oct 28, 2008 News
– make off with cash, jewellery and bank card
Sharda Gobin, of Lot 8 Riverview, Ruimveldt, wept hysterically when she related that two women robbed her of cash, a bank card and a gold ring on Sunday.
Gobin, a clothes vendor who operates in the La Penitence Market, told our reporter that, at around 11:00 hrs, the women approached her stall, and one requested to try out a particular pair of jeans in the stall.
The woman said this was strange, since the only such pair of jeans that the woman was indicating was hung just above her head, but the woman was claiming that there was another pair at the front of her stall, something that left Sharda Gobin bewildered.
Gobin accompanied one of the women to the front of her stall, while the other remained inside. She said that when she got to the front stall, just as expected, there was no pair of pants fitting the description that the woman sought.
Gobin said the woman then laughed and made an excuse of being mistaken, and left with the other woman, who by then had joined her from within the stall.
The vendor said that, at some time around 13:00 hrs, after the bell had sounded for the market to close, she looked into her handbag in which she had stored her keys and realized that some $65,000 in cash had disappeared.
The woman said that she rummaged through her bag in a panic and found that her Scotia Bank ATM card and her national identification card had also vanished, along with a gold ring valued at $12,000 that belonged to her eight-year-old son.
Amidst a wail of anguish yesterday, the vendor related that she had scribbled her pin number on the ATM card to remember it.
She fears greatly that the perpetrators would realise this and empty her bank account.
Gobin said that when she raised an alarm and described the women who had entered her stall, people told her that they were well known ‘women thieves’.
Gobin reported the matter to the City Constabulary ranks operating in the La Penitence Market, and later made a report at the Ruimveldt Police Station.
(Alex Wayne)
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