Another elderly resident robbed in Foreshore neighbourhood

Maybe it’s just coincidence, maybe its a case of copycat crime or just maybe the same pair of thugs is preying on elderly residents of the Southern Foreshore. Whatever the reason, less than a week after an eighty-two year old woman was robbed on Palm Lane, it happened again. This afternoon, eighty-five year old Robert Griffith was on his way to work at Augusto Quan, when he was accosted by two men on bicycles.

Robert Griffith, Victim
?I di come … when I see two buay di come pah bicycle, and they pass mi deh and deh gaan down. Well I neva mi di pay deh no mind, but one a deh turn back pan di bike and ih come yah. I still no mi di pay deh no mind. And when ih come, ih jump offa di bicycle and it tell me, ?I wah chap up you li rass.? Ih seh gimme alla di money you got ina u pocket. I tell ah, ?I noh gaat money.? Well den ih drag di machete and ih do so, I grab ih hand. The machete drop down deh, because ih had ih bicycle down deh. Then ih walk up to me and I grab ih hand and ih shub me, and I was like this. Then we start to tussle. Same time, ih shub ih hand ina mi pocket. Now he no have ih machete, he have two a ih hand. Ih tear up alla mi clothes dem. But just before this, deh hold wah lady and thief two hundred, I mean two thousand, anyway, deh thief money from ah. Wah old lady.?

Alyssa Noble, Reporting
?Do you think it?s the same people??

Robert Griffith
?I believe dah di same people.?

Alyssa Noble
?You think they need to have more patrols around the area??

Robert Griffith
?I think so, because it looks like deh di target Foreshore now.?

The thieves got away with two hundred dollars in cash and a green Nokia cell phone. If you have any information that can help Mr. Griffith, please contact the nearest police station.