Innocent victim of a violent jewellery heist is out of Hospital

Innocent victim of a violent jewellery heist is out of Hospital.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
June tenth, the day Bajaya Sooner thought he was going
to die when four armed men burst into his business
and cracked open his head with a crowbar.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
In a few seconds. I am the unconscious. I don't
know where I am, what is happening, I don't know anything.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Left helpless lying on the ground as they raided his
Nepalese jewelry store in a calculated heist. The estimated value
more than a million dollars. And he's been left with
a lifelong reminder.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
We are life and that's mean thing. Money comes goose. Yeah,
life is very important.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
But Jaya was almost robbed of that too, rushed into
emergency brain surgery.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Still have a blood clod in my head.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
He spent two weeks in hospital, but every day wife
Samita was by his side, knowing she almost lost her husband.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
It just happened in front of my eyes. Now, my
husband got ridden and I saw him with cover with
the blood, and it's very hard to see the person
you love.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
They've been married seven years together. They left Nepal in
search of a better life.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
He is the one who said up everything. Since we
come to Australia, he wanted to open his own business.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Doing what he loved. But Jaya made all this jewelry
with his bare hands.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
This is like my art.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
It took five years to build the business, but only
five minutes to destroy.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
We come here to like a good life, a good
opportunity to make our skill better. But it's everything, it's gone.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
These rings are now all that's left. The shelves are bare.
His store remains closed. It was the couple only means
to survive.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
It's only one income. We have family, family business, and
that's gone. That's gone.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
A month on. Investigators are still working day and night
to find Bajaya's attackers. They are asking anyone who may
know the location of the four men to come forward.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
We just want them to get punished. They have done
to us. We want justice.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Jordan Quinn seven News