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Mar 16, 2010 News
The occupants of 218 Lamaha Street, Kitty, thought that their overseas guest was having a bad dream when they heard her screams at three o’clock yesterday morning.
But it was no dream, Millie Holland had in fact come face to face with a burglar who had already broken into the bottom flat apartment and was about to enter her room.
The woman’s screams startled the burglar who bolted from the home but not before he had helped himself to several articles, including three cellular phones and two wristwatches. And he did so while the other occupants were fast asleep.
He had gained entry by prizing open the wooden back door of the apartment which is officially occupied by pensioner, Lennox Herbert, and his middle aged son, Mortimer.
Herbert said that he was asleep outside the front bedroom of the three bedroom apartment when he heard Holland’s shouts. The woman, his daughter, is visiting from the United Kingdom.
“I jump up and then I hear another shout. I rushed out my bedroom and my son also run out of his bedroom at the back. “We try to calm the lady by telling her that she had a bad dream,” Herbert told this newspaper.
But Holland insisted that she had seen a stranger in the house.
From all appearances, after entering the house the burglar first went into the back bedroom, which is occupied by the pensioner’s son, Mortimer. There he took possession of some satchels the man had in his room. In the satchels were money.
He then went to a computer in the living room where he picked up a four gigabit flash drive and some cellular phones that were left on a table.
He then tried to enter the bedroom Holland is occupying and that was when his plans went awry.
Speaking with this newspaper, a traumatised Holland, who arrived in Guyana last Sunday said that she heard when the back door was pulled open but she assumed that it was either Herbert or his son.
Then she heard the sound of drawers being pulled open in the back bedroom and again she assumed that it was one of the occupants of the house.
“I heard movement here but I thought that it was probably daddy (Herbert) walking around. Next thing you know the person pushed my door and when he pushed my door and pulled the curtain and he was now walking coming into my room, the second step, I started screaming,” Holland said.
She had come to realise that the person she saw was neither Herbert nor his son.
She described the intruder as a short dark skinned, young man.
She said that after screaming, the intruder became startled, since he must have felt that everyone was asleep.
“He screamed too and he turned around and he ran out. Daddy thought that I had a bad dream, I said, ‘man is in the house, a man is in the house.’ He said, ‘no’ but I said, ‘a man was in the house, he just passed by my bedroom, I saw him running’.
When they looked they saw that the back door was open and things were missing,” Holland recalled.
It is believed that the burglar targeted the apartment with the knowledge that a visitor from overseas was staying there.
Holland who left Guyana about 30 years ago told Kaieteur News that this is the first time she has had such an experience.
She said that she did not want to come to Guyana in the first place but she had business to look after.
Even her husband had warned her against coming to Guyana.
“I’m afraid to go out. I went out once since I’m here, to pick up my passport. I’m afraid I will never come back to Guyana again, never. I’m praying for my time to come to leave the country. I wish I can leave tonight but I can’t,” Holland told this newspaper.
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