Terrified woman hides in closet as thieves ransack house
SHARON Trim, 29, (IMAGE-missing) had a terrifying experience yesterday when she hid in a bedroom closet as thieves who had broken into the house ransacked the place, stacking booty to fetch away.
LEFT BEHIND: the shirt one of the
intruders left behind.
She said she
was home alone shortly after noon when men broke into the house at 55 Earl's
Court, La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Demerara.
Not seeing anyone inside, the thieves proceeded to ransack the two-flat building and packed microwave ovens, a television set, a DVD player, a CD player, a music system, a computer system and other items in a corner of the lower flat.
The men had
apparently sneaked up on foot to the house and after successfully breaking in
and packed household appliances, other items and foodstuff, left the premises to
get a vehicle to transport their loot.
Trim said that after the men broke into the house, she locked herself in her bedroom in the upper flat and hid in a closet with her cordless telephone in hand.
BOOTY: part of the loot the bandits
had put aside in a corner.
The visibly
shaken woman told the Chronicle shortly after the incident that she informed the
friend that someone was trying to break into her home and that he should call
neighbours and the Police to tell them about what was happening, and that she
was in the building hiding.
"All the time
I dey hiding in the closet. I heard everything but I just couldn't see
anything.
"I hearing
like about 20 people running in the house, but apparently was only two of them;
they had on heavy boots," Trim told this newspaper.
The Police
turned up about an hour after the incident and began
investigations.
The bandits
apparently did not get to carry away anything.
One of them even left a shirt behind.
Tuesday,
January 21, 2003