Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

With three vi­o­lent home in­va­sions in a week, res­i­dents of Bar­rack­pore are now ap­peal­ing for in­creased po­lice pa­trols. The in­ci­dents oc­curred at Cun­jal Road South and Ju­lian Trace.

In the lat­est in­ci­dent on Thurs­day, six­ty-sev­en-year-old gar­den­er Jag­ger­nath Ra­noo was at his Cun­jal Road home with his friend Har­dath Ma­haraj, 65, watch­ing crick­et and cook­ing.

How­ev­er, around 4.30 pm, four sus­pects armed with guns and cut­lass­es en­tered the house and planassed both men. The ban­dits then ran­sacked the house and robbed Ra­noo of a Sam­sung tablet, a wack­er and $1,000, be­fore they es­caped in Ma­haraj’s $100,000 sil­ver-grey Nis­san Car­a­van.

Last week there was an­oth­er home in­va­sion on the same street, where fam­i­ly mem­bers were tied up and robbed. When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the com­mu­ni­ty yes­ter­day, nei­ther Ma­haraj nor Ra­noo was home. Ra­noo’s broth­er, Suresh, how­ev­er, said his broth­er has tem­porar­i­ly moved out of his home.

“He fright­en now. He don’t re­al­ly want to stay there right now,” Suresh told Guardian Me­dia.

Con­cerned about crime in his com­mu­ni­ty, he said he had al­so heard that an­oth­er res­i­dent, a woman, was beat­en and robbed dur­ing an­oth­er home in­va­sion.

“Every­body fright­en right now. We plan­ning to get the po­lice to come and pa­trol,” he said.

In an­oth­er in­ci­dent, an el­der­ly cou­ple, ages 74 and 76, of Ju­lian Trace, were at­tacked at their home by in­trud­ers around 2.10 am. Short­ly af­ter they were jolt­ed from their sleep by a loud crash­ing sound, they were con­front­ed by two men armed with guns. The in­trud­ers beat the man and stole cell­phones and mon­ey. The sus­pects then es­caped in the man’s blue Nis­san AD wag­on. They en­tered the cou­ple’s home by smash­ing a front glass door.

Up to yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, there were no ar­rests in any of the in­ci­dents.