Two hoodie-wearing bandits drove fear into the heart of a female Carellie, Castries, resident in the wee hours of Saturday morning.
The woman, who requested anonymity and whom we will call Jane Doe for easy reference, recounted her terrifying experience to St. Lucia Times.
Doe said at about 2:00 am, neighbours saw the two individuals knocking down her home security cameras and posted an alert in the community group chat.
She disclosed that she was asleep and heard nothing, but a group chat member’s telephone call woke her up.
“They took the cameras. So when I got the call, I am getting up, and I am saying, ‘ How the monitor for the camera blank?” Doe told St. Lucia Times.
She recalled switching on all the lights in her house, after which she heard a loud noise at her door, and the window at the side of the kitchen door broke.
Then, she heard the voices of the two intruders.
“They saying, ‘Open! Open deh, I tell you! Open deh!” However, Doe said she did not comply.
She noted that her home had five security cameras, all of which the bandits took away.
“When they were going to take the last camera, it apparently took the side of the face of one of them, but you not seeing him clear because they took out the lights, so it was kinda dark. Then they start hitting down the house bhow, bhow, bhow ‘Open deh! I say, open deh’.”
Doe told St. Lucia Times that the footage showed one of the bandits taking something from his pocket, but she could not tell whether it was a firearm or a knife.
“All that got me more scared,” she stated.
The shaken resident said the bandits eventually left and the police were summoned.
She said it was her first such experience in nearly three decades of living in the community and one she will never forget.
In some parts of the world, it is considered a personal threat, when an individual is caught disabling a home security system. The action is viewed as a preemption to a physical assault on the home’s occupant(s). This protection gives the homeowner the right to defend himself as if he were being personally attacked. Don’t expect to see such protections anytime soon.
Hope the occupant is coping with the trauma and getting help. The criminals will be back. You can bet on it. This case is solvable but I will not go into depth. Others, kindly do not post suggestions about solving the case. She will thank you for it.
I am not certain if the powers that be realize that no one is safe in St. Lucia not even with cameras – what next ???????????
So being a woman and living alone is reason to be bullied by bandits … I see …. tell those bandits good riddance 👍
This time of year break-ins always increase in Carellie. I hope the police start patrolling the neighbour soon.
Had you kill these bandits, what will Mary Francis say? Mary we want to hear from you.
This country is heading down a dark path. The criminals in this country high and low are running things. If we really think we’re not far of the path of a failed state, we really have our collective heads buried in the sand.
Since PjP is head of security on Island, someone should tell him CHRISTMASS IS COMING some guys are desperate for money, or anything they can sell for money; they’ll even kill to get it; increase security all around. People on the whole should seek Spiritual help, the LORD alone can help.
The nerve of these malvetaayes menaces to society coming to rob (or whatever) and asking the individual to open their door (open deh) ??????- St. Lucia is getting out of hand on every level.
I do not live in St. Lucia but my cameras start recording and providing footage before you approach the door and if you tamper with the camera the alarm is so loud – it will wake up the entire community and it is also connected to the police via the vendor of the appliance. In addition, if you decide to trespass (where you do not belong) you will take whatever you get for real.
These fools can only do this in St. Lucia – any place else they will be HISTORY and the parents will say “he was a good boy/girl – just a little troublesome” — I WILL NEVER COVER UP FOR MY KIDS IF THEY ARE DOING THE WRONG THING….but them again some useless parents in St. Lucia benefit from the ill-gotten gains…dayban malvetaye sutweeezee. Karma knows every ones address and everyone will reap all that they have sowed – par dee poor jab….. time will tell.
Why did they target you ??? Why is your cameras so easily accessible ?? Never spend cheaply on security if you had good cameras they would have woken you up before the neighbors did and you could have activated the sirens. Always have auxiliary cameras not on the house but in some place conspicuous place like the light post by the road or on the coconut tree the fools would never think you flex like that. Nothing is in wrong with having a good old fashioned cutlass well sharpened in the house the first one who sticks his head in, oh well the rest will start running. Stop letting people know your business that’s the biggest treat to your home security.
Open deh open deh. For sure when the police came to the house one or both would have been there laid out cold on the ground. What’s the sense of having a neighborhood watch and you not coming out to make sure the home owner is safe. Calling and staying away isn’t enough they had to attack them too. Because once they left they can do someone else in the neighborhood that or somewhere else. Who knows the next time some innocent person might be killed in their house.
@Lucian Lowgrade you are a joke, look at your recommendations, get a sharp cutlass as if chopping up someone is a normal act that has no consequences and isn’t traumatizing to everyone involved. Stop living your life and hide away in your house as he/she says stop letting people know your business. Once again we have SLP operatives blaming the victims for crime instead of the criminals and the authorities who refuse to put protocols in place to make the country safer. In their mind law abiding citizens have no right to live their life in peace, we must stay inside because someone might come after us.
@Lucian Lowgrade, you scumbag, do you think its fair for criminals to dictate what law abiding citizens can and cannot do?
It always baffles me how criminals are undetected in saint lucia as if they slowly dropped from the sky onto the lady’s front steps!!! They must have walked the streets or drove in a car with a make model and license plate ….probably drove through Bisee, Carville, Chase Gardens, town, LA clery, Balata etc etc….my point is there are cameras all over on Other people’s houses that must have footage of those dogs. Police, use your brains!!! Same goes for the daylight Square shooting…up to now nada…wth?
All those boys should have a target on their back for elimination. This is nonsense now. If that was the case, the next gang would think twice.
Well well well and what do we have here ?? It’s Classic Oh Really ( you fool ) with your usual narcissistic audacity of calling me a low grade/scumbag, when clearly you have ALWAYS been and will ALWAYS be beneath me on all levels. I think your second paragraph should be directed and asked of your supported criminal UWPEES Henchmen with their sticky fingers. My suggestive use to the TARGETED homeowner of keeping a cutlass in her home to defend herself is nothing unorthodox of wish many St Lucian’s have been doing for centuries, we are not Visigoths we are private citizens trying to to rightfully defend the sanctuary of one’s home by any means necessary, where many does not have the fortitude rights to a firearm as you do. Your constant illusions and allures that crimes of this nature could have been prevented due to the lack of effective policing is a slap to the face to all frontline law enforcement officers who patrol this nation while you snore your nights away. The police cannot be everywhere in every hole on this rock, so we the people must protect ourselves and the Sanctuary of our homes by any means necessary.
@Lucian Lowgrade,
We all have a cutlass in our homes for many reasons but most will not be able to use it to defend themselves. You keep missing the point, the point is the lack of justice is breeding what is going on today. Criminals all over the place doing what they want because they do not fear the police force nor the justice system. Its not about having police on every block, you keep repeating this stupid take. Lastly, I don’t know who you think I am but it is not any of the things you mention.
Be vigilant. T’is the season.
Oh Really you need to follow in the steps of Rupert Murdock your time has come and past; the St Lucia you dream of will not rise anytime soon from the ashes of despair has you have so painfully painted it to be. Remember there is more time behind you than in front of you. Criminality will foster with or without competent politicians in place, it’s just the mindset of the heathen amongst us.
You need to get a firearm and go to the range. Because you would have been able to open the door and shoot the hell out of them.
Undoubtedly these guys have served their time in Prison, and are out without fear to do the thing they know best what to do. Sorry to say but St. Lucia is heading strait toward Haiti life style. These guys when caught should be brought to the community/location of the crime, show their faces then pull out de LOLO BEFF, bring out the kids from school to witness then whip his azz mercilessly. Repeat the same in all other Village or Town; the Churches should do their part in these cases.