A GLENWOOD student had to fight for his life when he was accosted while walking home from campus on Friday afternoon.
Speaking to Berea Mail within an hour of the incident, the visibly shaken Jordan-Lee Robinson said he had just finished a long morning at DUT’s Brickfield Road campus and was walking home to Glenwood like any other day, when he was accosted.
“I finished campus, was tired and walked up from Brickfield Road very fast to get home. As I turned up towards Tollgate bridge – I use this route because its always busy with passing cars and I feel is safer – and was a few hundred metres from the bridge when I noticed a guy on the road with headphones on singing and walking up as well. I am very security conscious so I did notice him and tried to overtake him but he then overtook me. As we got closer to the bridge, he stopped singing and my guard was up,” the 18-year-old said.
Robinson said he looked back hoping a car would come past but unfortunately the road was clear and the man grabbed him by his jersey, ripping it and holding him at knife point. “All I could concentrate on was the knife, which was small and had a red handle. I just had to make sure he didn’t stab him. The man started saying “phone! phone! give phone” and I told him I didn’t have a phone. I tried to resist him but he pushed me down and I got hurt as I fell to the ground. I was praying a car would come up. Then when I saw a car out the corner of my eye I relaxed and tried to make him think I’d give in to him so he relaxed his grip and I ran. I’m just thankful there was a man who stopped to help me because I’m not the toughest person, but wasn’t going to let him take my things,” he said.
The good Samaritan tried to catch the suspect who disappeared around the Tollgate bridge area, before taking the shaken youngster to the police station.
“It isn’t right that people take our things. My mother and granny work hard and I work hard so it’s disturbing to know that people are constantly targeting hard working people,” Robinson said.
