…police arrest eight suspects
A former police officer and close friend of murder accused Marcus Bisram is among eight persons who have been arrested for the robbery committed on the businessman earlier this week.
Six of the eight persons were taken into custody on Monday while, the other two were arrested on Tuesday. They have all denied involvement in the robbery.
On November 29, 2020, four armed, masked men attacked and robbed Bisram and his family at his No. 71 Village, East Berbice – Corentyne (Region Six) home, carting off with jewellery and about $5M in cash.
Police sources have identified the former cop as 31-year-old man of Corriverton, Region Six. Reports are that the ex-cop was seen in the company of a known criminal character on the day in question.
The ex-cop was discharged from the Guyana Police Force after being charged with possession of narcotics.
Bisram, 31, recounted that the robbery occurred at about 19:30h Sunday during which time he was having a family gathering.
He told the media that upon entering his yard, the robbers instructed him and his relatives to go into the house where they [robbers] took all of their [Bisram and family] personal belongings. He explained that a two-year-old relative was held hostage during the daring robbery.
“One of them came to me and asked where my room was while pointing a gun to a two-year-old relative of mine. I couldn’t resist because two of them were following me and they held the child at gunpoint in front of me. They took eight cellphones, one of which belongs to me and the others belonging to my relatives. I won’t exaggerate on how much jewellery they took from my family members but on my behalf, they escaped with two of my gold bangles weighing 100-pennyweight each and a 100-pennyweight gold chain,” the man recounted.
He said too that he also had in his possession a diamond ring worth US$12,000, ($2,514,840 GY dollars) along with G$5M which he recently withdrew to pay his attorney fees for his ongoing court matter. The men also took his wallet containing US$2,000 together with seven credit cards.
“I recently took out the money and no one knew that I had that amount of money at home. However, I must say that the police acted swiftly and they were very professional. They arrived approximately 15 minutes after and they spent a lot of time trying to sort things out,” Bisram told reporters.
He related that his 24-year-old cousin was hurt during the ordeal during his objection to the requests by the bandits. The man was beaten with a cutlass across his head by one of the robbers.
“It’s normal for us to always lock up and stay inside but it was just so unexpected because about 20 of us were sitting here last night so nobody expected something like that to happen or for them to pop up on us like that,” he said noting that the quartet made good their escape on motorcycles which they had parked a few houses away from his.
