Thieves invade a pensioner’s home, take one out of bed, steal cash
Kaieteur News – Two robbers armed with a knife last Thursday used a ladder to invade the home of an elderly couple and rob them of their pension money.
The victims are Bisnauth Persaud, 83, and his wife Nandanie Persaud, 73. The couple’s home located at 21st Street, Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara (EBD), was invaded sometime after 03:00Hrs.
Nandanie recalled enjoying her sleep when she was suddenly taken out of bed by a strange person. He described the man as slim, dressed in a dark colored vest and his face was hidden.
“He shook me and said ‘Go check your husband, go check your husband’,” said Nandanie.
She explained that her husband, Bisnauth at the time, was sleeping in another room. Realizing that that man could be a bandit, Nandanie told her to get scared and learn that he had killed her husband.
“I got up and rushed over to his room” he continued, “only to see another man standing over my husband with one hand in the air as if he was about to hit him”.
As she was about to enter the room, Nandanie said that her husband had called her three times.
“He was alive and instead of going in I turned around and ran towards the door”.
Nandanie told reporters that the man who had pulled her out of bed tried to grab her but she avoided and reached the door.
“I open the door and run downstairs chasing a thief, thief, thief, thief”.
He allegedly alerted the alarm raised by neighbors and rushed out of their houses to assist the elderly couple.
Nandandie recalled one of the robbers running out of the house and grading a fence compensating for his escape. She re-opened the house and went to her husband’s room again but the other bandit had disappeared.
Her husband explained that due to his age, he can’t walk properly so he helped her out of the house as the neighbors helped summon the police.
When cops arrived sometime later, they noted that a ladder had been placed by her husband’s bedroom window. The thieves are believed to have used that ladder to gain access to the couple’s home.
Police also noticed that the thieves had already removed a television from the wall along with a DVD player but were forced to drop it after Nandanie raised the alarm.
The thieves escaped, however, with the couple’s pension money totaling $ 50,000 in cash.
Nandanie also said an additional $ 10,000 was missing from a table. She claimed she had set aside that money to pay her light bill and buy cooking gas.