Store owner’s son kidnapped

A 25-year-old Maraval man was kidnapped from his home early yesterday. Reports revealed that around 4 am, Rondel Lord of Silver Terrace in Maraval was at home when two men armed with guns barged into the house and ordered Lord into a waiting car. He was bundled into a dark coloured vehicle and taken away by the gunmen. A $100,000 ransom was yesterday demanded by the kidnappers. Officers of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad told Newsday that Lord is the 21st kidnap victim for the year. When Newsday visited the home of the kidnap victim yesterday, a relative told Newsday that the father of one left home on Thursday night to lime at Club Coconuts.

She added that on his arrival home around 4 am yesterday, he called out to his wife Elizabeth De Silva and told her he would be upstairs shortly. The kidnappers snatched Lord as he alighted from his Honda Accord. They then bundled him into another vehicle. Lord was allowed to speak with his wife on the telephone yesterday. He begged her not to involve the police in the kidnapping. The kidnapper then spoke with De Silva asking for the $100,000 ransom. Up until yesterday, kidnap victim Simon Persaud, who was abducted last Friday from outside a house in St Clair, remained in the hands of his abductors.

His mother Marguerite, who is a Latin dance instructor, said that she does not have the ransom money demanded by the abductors. AKS officers believe that it was a random kidnapping and the kidnappers may have felt that Persaud was from a wealthy family. The 18-year-old schoolboy of Strathayes Avenue in Diego Martin is his parents’ only child. His father Parris is a sales representative with Colonial Life Insurance (CLICO) and lives in Santa Cruz. Persaud was abducted last Friday at St Clair while attending a birthday party.