Man dives out of moving car to escape abductors

CERTAIN that his abductors were going to kill him, a 49-year-old San Fernando man made a daring escape by jumping out of a speeding car. Sookram Beharry’s act of bravery cost him a broken left leg, but Beharry is thanking his lucky stars he is alive today. Police said Beharry was beaten on his head with a hammer and gunbutt after three men abducted him on Monday night. He was standing in front of a bar at Diamond Village, San Fernando around 8 pm, when three men pulled up in a car alongside him. A police report stated that after he accepted a lift from the men, Beharry, of Goldstone Crescent, Union Hall, was robbed of $10.

His driver’s permit, house keys and a briefcase containing some important documents were also taken by the three men as he sat in the backseat of the car. Beharry told Newsday when the driver turned into Golconda Road, he shouted at the men. “The man in the front push back the seat against me and then recline it, pinning me in the back,” Beharry said. He said the other man who was sitting next to him whipped out a knife and began stabbing him about his body. “When I felt blood running down my neck, I grabbed the man’s hand,” Beharry said.

According to Beharry, the man in the front seat began to strike him on the head with a gunbutt and hammer. Believing he was going to be killed, Beharry said he opened the door of the car and jumped out. “I started to ease my body closer to the door. I opened the lock, kicked open the door and dived out. My foot broke while I was tumbling a few times on the road.” The men in the car did not stop, and Beharry said he does not know why the men abducted him. Beharry has since been staying with an uncle because he is afraid to return to his home, where he lives alone.