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The Rayneau concrete plant where the security guard was attacked.
A security guard who was last evening beaten and robbed of his cell phone while guarding a Rayneau concrete plant in Vieux-Fort has spoken to St. Lucia News Online (SNO) about his ordeal.
Patrick Hippolyte, 64, of New Extension, Micoud, who is employed with a private security company but assigned to the plant, told SNO he was confronted by two or three unmasked young men about 10 p.m. while patrolling the compound.
According to Hippolyte, the men suddenly pounced on him from behind some vehicles in the yard and ordered him to “pass his money and gun”.
According to Hippolyte, the men searched his pockets and took his cell phone, and kept asking him for his money and gun.
“I told them I have no money… so they began beating me on my head with a piece of stick…. I was in great pain,” Hippolyte told SNO.
He said during the ordeal he was in fear for his life.
“Although I told them I have no money they still kept hitting me with a stick on my head… They insisted I had a gun,” Hippolyte said.
“They told me not today they have been watching me…” he added.
He said he tried to put up a fight but to no avail.
Hippolyte said he was attacked in an area on the compound where there was not much light so he could not identify the men.
According to him, after a while, the men fled in nearby bushes.
He said his shift usually comprises of one guard, armed with a baton.
Hippolyte said after the men fled the scene he ran by the road and stopped a vehicle which took him to the Vieux-Fort Police Station, and later taken to the St. Jude Hospital where he was treated and discharged.
He is now in deep pain, lying in his bed with a swollen face, and several stiches to his head.
“My head is paining me. It has cuts all around it…” he grieved.
His wife, Anselma Hippolyte said she was devastated when she heard of the incident. She said her husband is the only bread winner in the house and is hoping he will soon recover.
“The incident left me with a headache…” she lamented.
She said there is a need for the security company to have more than one guard on a shift for their (workers) safety.
Workers at the plant declined to comment on the incident.
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