Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

Two ban­dits at­tempt­ed to abduct a mo­torist af­ter rob­bing him on Thurs­day in San Fer­nan­do, but the 34-year-old Freeport man fought back and es­caped.

The vic­tim told po­lice that around 2.15 pm, he was dri­ving his brown Maz­da BT50 van south along Seuk­er­an Street. As he ne­go­ti­at­ed a U-turn at the end of the street, he was ap­proached by two men. One of the sus­pects point­ed a gun at his head and or­dered him in­to the back­seat.

One of the as­sailants al­so en­tered the back­seat and struck the vic­tim on the head be­fore steal­ing his blue iPhone 13, val­ued at $5,500, and his wal­let, which con­tained per­son­al doc­u­ments and $3,300.

The oth­er sus­pect at­tempt­ed to dri­ve off with the vic­tim still in the ve­hi­cle.

How­ev­er, the vic­tim strug­gled with the sus­pect in the back­seat and man­aged to es­cape.

The ban­dits then fled in the vic­tim’s van, val­ued at $70,000, which con­tained $10,000 worth of tools. The vic­tim sought treat­ment at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

The ve­hi­cle was lat­er re­cov­ered by Act­ing Cor­po­ral Hug­gins and of­fi­cers of the San Fer­nan­do En­quiries Unit along Pen­i­tence Street near Sur­gi Med.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the in­ci­dent are on­go­ing.