Banglamung police were notified on early Saturday evening about a Portuguese lady being robbed in her home at gunpoint. Officers visited the one storey luxury house in Free Way Village on Mabprachan Horseshoe Point Road where the armed robbery occurred.
There they met up with the victim, Mrs. Suzette Lage. In a state of shock the 55 year old Portuguese lady stated that she lived alone at the house as her husband had returned back to Portugal on business. That afternoon as she was taking rubbish outside to the bin, she noticed two teenage boys in a white car parked nearby. Then after a few minutes, whilst inside her home, she was suddenly confronted by the two teenagers, one of them brandishing a gun. They had climbed over her wall and entered through the unlocked sliding glass doors. They immediately threatened her to show them where she kept her jewelry and other valuables.
Frightened, she complied, and as they tied her up with a belt and covered her mouth with one of her husband’s shirts, they r
ummaged through the house and grabbed a diamond Rolex watch worth 400,000 baht, a number of diamond rings, necklaces and her ATM. Before leaving, they demanded she give them the PIN code, which she did. After they left, she managed to free herself and run out of the house to seek help from neighbours. Immediately, police radioed information and a description of the attackers to patrol police. It was later that a person came forward and told police that they believed that two suspects, fitting the robbers description, were in an angry state as they failed to get money out of an ATM at a Bangkok Bank branch in Naklua. Thankfully, Mrs. Lage had given them the wrong PIN code numbers. As the case continues, Police are studying CCTV footage at the ATM in the hope of identifying the two thugs.
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