A 32-year-old woman who was robbed recently in Blackstars, Morne Du Don said residents are fed up of being robbed at gunpoint of the “little we have”.
The woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said she was robbed last week Thursday around midnight.
“After getting off the bus, I walked down the Blackstars road. I didn’t see anyone around, then one guy came from the back of a vehicle …. When I turned around to run, the other was there also with a gun,” she said.
The robber told her “pass it, pass it”. The woman said she screamed but “to no avail”.
“They took my clutch purse and ran,” she added.
The hoodlums reportedly escaped through a “short cut” that leads to the Morne Du Don School.
She said the incident left her so traumatised that she had to take sick leave. Asked if she sustained injuries, she said: “No, they just roughed me up because I didn’t want to drop the clutch.”
The frightened woman said she hasn’t reported the matter to the police out of fear that the lawmen may leak her identity to the criminals.
“What sense does it make when they know the person who do it and these same persons work for them?” she alleged.
“They know the dude… so when I report him and his officer friends tell him who made the report then whose life is in danger? The person who robbed me, we know who is doing it. The dude says if anyone reports him he will burn their house.
“I prefer to be robbed of $50 than to be homeless,” said the frightened woman.
She said other persons have been robbed in the area but the victims are afraid to go to the police. They fear being targeted by gangsters in the area.
The woman is calling for more police patrols, at least.
“We residents are fed up of being held at gun point and robbed of the little that we have. We need police patrols in that area because our lives are in danger. Being robbed at gun point is very traumatising.
“Something needs to be done seriously because mostly every night someone is being robbed at gun point,” the woman claimed.
When contacted for a comment on the woman’s allegations, Police Press Officer Zachary Hippolyte declined to comment. Hippolyte said he will not comment on the claim of just one person.
Reports of crime – shootings, homicides, and shootings – are not uncommon in Morne Du Don.
In January, Castries police were called to the scene of firebomb attack on a house in Bois Patat, Morne Du Don.
Reports are that kerosene-bottle bombs, also known as Molotov cocktails, were thrown at the house of a mother of three children, in Bois Patat around 12:30 a.m. No one was hurt, but the walls of the house was scorched and some clothes were burnt during the attack.
A resident of the area had told SNO in the said story, that the police need to step up their patrols in the area, especially after midnight. The resident further stated that violence occurs almost every week in Bois Patat and adjoining communities, but the incidents are seldom reported by the media or the authorities.
A bus driver was recently the target of a robbery attempt in Morne Du Don.