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Mar 27, 2018 News
Prompt action by ranks from the Leonora Police Station yesterday led to the capture of three bandits who, at around 10am yesterday, beat and robbed 71-year-old Neil Persaud, known as Kala, of $100,000. The victim is a cooking gas retailer from Anna Catherina, West Bank Demerara.
According to a senior Police officer, Persaud was using a horse cart to sell cooking gas and kerosene when the robbery occurred at Silver Sand Street, Windsor Forest, West Bank Demerara. The officer said one of the three bandits was armed with a cutlass, which he used to beat Persaud.
He said Persaud was beaten in the presence of his son, who was also on the cart with him.
According to an eyewitness, Persaud was approaching the “concrete strip” between Ruimzeight and Windsor Forest when the three bandits, who appeared to be waiting, accosted and pulled him off the cart and dealt him several lashes to the head with a cutlass.
The eyewitness said, after the beating, Persaud fell to the ground. The bandits then proceeded to search Persaud’s pocket. The man’s son was also beaten and his pocket searched by the robbers.
After robbing Persaud of $100,000, the bandits ran into the compound of an old rice mill that was overtaken by bush. However, they were chased by villagers who witnessed the attack.
By that time, Persaud’s son alerted police officers who, within minutes, arrived at the scene of the robbery and began to search for the bandits.
According to the eyewitness, villagers also began to comb the bush for the bandits who by that time, had already escaped to another nearby yard, which was also overtaken by bush.
The eyewitness said that residents were unable to search the other yard because there were thorns in the bush. However, a villager used his tractor to weed down the bush to get to the bandits.
“When the tractor was getting closer to them, they got up and surrendered,” he said.
The officers arrested the three bandits and after questioning, recovered a cutlass along with $64,000, which was wrapped in a black rag, in the yard in which they were hiding.
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