Fear has gripped Peacevale residents after a spate of house robberies and dog poisoning incidents.
In one incident, a husband and wife were accosted by five armed men in front of their three young children.
The robbers burst into their home on Hajee Jamal Street at around 4am on Tuesday and held the husband and wife at gunpoint. Cash, jewellery and cellphones were taken. The men then tied up the husband and wife with shoe laces before leaving.
The wife managed to get hold of a pair of scissors and cut the laces to free herself and her husband.
Strangely, the robbers did show some compassion and when the husband complained that he could not breathe after he had been forced on to his stomach, the men turned him on his side and asked if ‘that was better’.
. Captain Roshan Banawo of the Dundee Detectives said police were working hard to bring the gang/s to book and that patrols had been stepped up in the Peacevale area.
It was said that some of the men spoke with ‘foreign African accents’. In another incident, Preyan Murugan and his family were left distraught when they came home last Tuesday evening to their Browning Street house, opposite the Hindu Temple, to find their Golden Retriever and Labrador dogs dead. Both had been poisoned and Preyen said the poison had ‘virtually burnt the mouths of the dogs’.
“I went home at lunchtime and the dogs were fine. When we got home at 6pm both were dead. These crooks are bold enough to operate during the day.” He said the burglar bars on one of the windows had been bent in as if an attempt had been made to break in. However, nothing had been stolen.
Police said there had been other incidents in Peacevale where residents had been attacked in their homes in the early hours of the morning and robbed of cash and jewellery.
A Gladstone Street house was also broken into while the owner was away and a ‘substantial amount of cash’ taken from the safe. Captain Roshan Banawo of the Dundee Detectives said police were working hard to bring the gang/s to book and that patrols had been stepped up in the Peacevale area.
