Three
men,
two
of
whom
were
armed,
on
Thursday
morning
staged
a
daring
robbery
on
Nedd's
Uplift
Bakery
at
the
corner
of
Garnett
and
Middleton
streets
but
it
all
went
wrong.
At
the
end
of
the
ten-minute
ordeal,
a
bandit/
employee
had
been
shot
twice
in
the
legs,
one
had
been
captured
unhurt
and
the
third
managed
to
get
away.
The
locked
box
with
about
$100,000
which
represented
the
sales
from
the
night
before
was
left
abandoned
in
a
nearby
walkway.
The
trio
stuck
up
the
owner
Parbattie
Nedd
and
two
female
staff
members.
One
of
the
women
managed
to
escape
and
raised
an
alarm
and
it
was
at
this
point
that
the
bandits
grabbed
the
locked
box
and
made
a
mad
dash
for
freedom.
However,
two
of
them
were
caught
and
the
third
who
was
armed
with
a
gun
fled
the
scene.
Stabroek
News
was
reliably
informed
yesterday
that
the
bandit
who
was
shot
is
wanted
by
the
police
for
murder.
He
is
currently
a
patient
at
the
city
hospital
after
undergoing
surgery.
When
this
newspaper
arrived
on
the
scene,
the
popular
bakery
was
open
for
business
and
there
were
no
visible
signs
on
the
outside
of
what
had
happened
earlier.
How-ever,
inside
the
bakery
was
a
different
story.
Fear
and
shock
was
still
evident
on
the
faces
of
the
employees.
The
owner,
Parbattie
Nedd,
suffered
the
brunt
of
the
attack
as
she
was
the
first
person
the
bandits
accosted.
Nedd's
face
and
neck
bore
scrapes
and
bruises
and
the
woman
was
spitting
blood
when
this
newspaper
saw
her.
With
shock
evident
in
her
voice
the
elderly
woman
said
that
at
about
5.45
am
one
of
her
employees,
who
had
recently
resumed
work,
brought
two
men
to
the
establishment
seeking
employment.
"I
tell
him
that
I
already
got
six
staff
and
I
don't
want
any
more.
I
tell
him
that
they
could
wait
outside
until
my
son
comes
and
see
if
he
wants
to
take
one
of
them,"
she
added,
her
voice
breaking
up.
Nedd
said
shortly
after,
a
customer
came
to
collect
bread
and
left
and
the
employee,
who
had
been
bagging
tennis
rolls
opened
the
grille
door
to
the
bakery,
let
the
two
men
in
and
then
locked
it
back.
The
shop
was
not
yet
opened
for
business.
She
said
the
employee
ran
into
the
front
section
of
the
shop,
where
she
was,
and
started
choking
her
and
she
reacted
by
screaming.
With
tears
welling
up
in
her
eyes,
the
woman
said
she
fell
to
the
ground
and
the
employee
sat
on
her
and
continued
to
choke
her.
"I
start
to
bleed
through
my
nose
and
all
my
spectacles
fall
down
and
break,"
she
added.
The
woman
related
that
the
employee
wanted
her
to
go
upstairs
but
she
told
him
that
there
was
nothing
up
there
and
that
he
should
take
the
money
box
that
was
sitting
on
a
nearby
table.
Nedd
said
she
was
told
that
the
other
two
men
had
a
gun
and
an
ice-pick.
She
said
that
one
of
her
staff
managed
to
escape
through
a
side
door
and
started
hollering
for
her
sons
who
live
at
the
back
of
the
bakery.
She
said
the
employee
who
was
holding
her
captive
was
taking
her
to
the
staircase
leading
to
the
upper
flat
when
someone
started
banging
loudly
on
the
locked
grille
door
to
the
bakery.
She
said
that
prior
to
this
the
man
was
not
only
choking
her
but
that
he
had
been
covering
her
mouth
with
his
hands
to
prevent
her
from
screaming.
"All
de
blood
was
gushing
out
of
my
nose.
I
started
seeing
dark.
My
son
starting
knocking
on
the
door
and
like
he
get
scared
and
they
grab
the
box
and
run
through
the
door,"
she
said.
According
to
Nedd
only
two
of
the
bandits
ran
though
the
door.
She
said
that
the
third
man
was
standing
near
a
door
on
the
opposite
side
and
she
opened
it
to
let
him
out
but
her
neighbours
ambushed
the
man
and
gave
him
a
sound
thrashing
before
handing
him
over
to
the
police.
"I
open
the
door
for
he
to
run
out
because
he
didn't
do
me
nothing,"
she
said,
adding
that
it
was
the
screaming
and
commotion
that
had
alerted
nearby
residents
to
the
robbery.
Nedd
said
the
police
arrived
promptly
and
that
the
fleeing
bandits
left
the
box
with
the
money
outside
in
their
bid
to
escape.
She
said
that
it
was
locked
and
that
she
had
the
keys.
The
employee
who
had
held
onto
her,
she
said,
ran
into
a
neighbour's
house
where
police
later
caught
him.
Nedd
said,
"This
is
the
first
time
this
happen
to
we
since
we
open
this
bakery.
It's
around
since
about
1970."
Following
the
ordeal,
the
woman
was
taken
to
a
city
hospital
and
was
told
that
her
pressure
was
high.
Nedd
said
"I
am
shaken
up…I
thank
God
that
I
still
have
my
life.
God
was
good.
I
prayed
during
the
ordeal."
As
regard
security
she
said
she
and
her
relatives
will
have
to
sit
down
to
see
how
this
issue
could
be
addressed.
"I
thought
I
was
safe
in
here
because
this
whole
place
grille
up…
He
(the
employee)
had
the
advantage
because
he
knows
this
place
and
he
was
in
here,"
she
said.
The
woman
said
the
incident
proves
that
she
cannot
simply
trust
employees.
She
said
that
the
employee
who
accosted
her
had
worked
for
her
for
some
time
before
leaving
but
he
later
returned.
He
packed
bread
and
was
a
handyman
around
the
store.
Police
in
a
statement
last
evening
said
it
is
significant
to
note
that
the
robbery
was
carried
out
with
the
involvement
of
an
employee
who
apparently
had
sought
em-ployment
there
specifically
to
arrange
the
attack.