Elderly woman robbed at her Harmony Hall home

Jenny Shallow, a resident of Harmony Hall, is thankful that her life was spared following the unlawful entry and burglary that occurred at her residence during the wee hours of the morning of Wednesday, July 7.{{more}}

When SEARCHLIGHT visited Shallow later that day, she said that she was having a hard time dealing with the ordeal that had occurred just hours prior.

“I want to stand up for justice; what they do last night scared the living daylights out of me,” the upset woman said.

“They had no right in my place!” she further contended.

“These people don’t know what they have done.”

Shallow said she had returned from Bequia earlier and had gone to sleep, only to wake up to discover three men standing in her bedroom.

One stood at the foot of the bed, while the other two stood on either side of the bed, Shallow disclosed.

The 56-year-old woman, who returned to St Vincent in 2004 after a 23-year stint in the United Kingdom, said that her immediate reaction was to inquire what the men were doing in her bedroom at that hour.

The ordeal started around 1a.m. she said.

Shallow told SEARCHLIGHT that the men did not initially hide their faces, but used pieces of her clothing to conceal their identity as they fled the scene.

She said the men ordered her not to scream or say anything or they would shoot her.

One of the men carried a cutlass, but Shallow said that she did not see a gun.

The men then demanded money, she said; but Shallow said that she had none.

A quick search of one of the woman’s bags revealed that she was indeed telling the truth. Then Shallow said that they told her that if she did not have money they wanted jewelry.

“One of the men grab hold of the two gold chains around my neck,” Shallow recollected.

She said that she resisted the demand and asked the men if they were going to “take every bit of thing that she had worked so hard to buy.”

“That was when one of the men said ‘Lef granny with one’,” Shallow told SEARCHLIGHT.

The woman was eventually relieved of a chain she says was given to her on her 40th birthday by her children.

They briefly ransacked the room before leaving and again instructed the woman not to scream or speak, but Shallow said that the ordeal had shaken her to the point where she was speechless.

The men then proceeded to another bedroom where Shallow’s sister, Martina Spring, was sleeping.

Spring said that the men made off with a bag containing a total of EC $459, her bank book and identification card.

The third occupant of the house, 75-year-old Clayton Harry, was sleeping downstairs when the ordeal began.

He told SEARCHLIGHT that he heard the footsteps and thought it was Shallow.

Harry said the man told him “Ralph Gonsalves have dis country real f…up, you have any money?”

At this point, he had already been relieved of his gold chain and he was backed into his room and forced to lie down.

But Shallow said that she is not about to let the ordeal ruin life for her.

She says that she intends to stay at her current residence.

“I ain’t going no where; I hope the next time, I see them, before them see me, and I don’t care if they send me Fort because I know I will feel better than I do now.” (DD)