Displaying a pair of trousers from which a pocket was ripped out, mechanical engineer Tony Pike painted a grim tale of being beaten up outside a parlour in Pt Cumana, Carenage. The incident, which left the German national traumatised, took place around 11 on Saturday night. He was returning from a church service at Holiness Revival Ministries in Woodbrook. During the scuffle, he retrieved $50, a laptop, but lost his phone valued about $130.
"I was shocked and disappointed the police never came. "I was brutally beaten and robbed in Carenage. I waited for two- and-half hours, almost naked in the road. "There were witnesses who waited for 30 to 40 minutes to give their testimony, but they got fed up and left." Pike, a member of Is There Not A Cause (Intac), said he felt he needed a hiatus and wanted to give something back. "Just as I did missionary work in Mexico in 2003, I came to T&T to do the same work. Often times, we dig into our pockets to help. I felt I could better myself by helping others. We do work with the missions in Kenya and Haiti."
