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01-07-2008, 02:19 AM #1831
Dad shot in front of children
Pretoria - A Waterkloof Ridge man has been shot dead in front of his wife and children in an armed robbery at his house, about a kilometre from the home of national police chief Jackie Selebi.
Fred Picton-Turbervill, 46, of Arie Street died hours later on the 21st birthday of his son, Jamie, who lives in England.
Selebi lives in Delphinus Street, which ends in Aries Street.
Picton-Turbervill, a director of a furniture manufacturing company, his wife, Ursula, 41, and their children Samantha, 10, Bryony, nine, Natasha, six, and Gregory, three, were overpowered by two armed robbers at their home at 21:30 on Saturday night.
The robbers made off with a laptop, four cellphones and about R1 000 in cash.
Speaking from the home of her friend Kim Tucker in Waterkloof Ridge, Picton-Turbervill said on Sunday "the robbers have ruined my children's lives, all for flipping cellphones".
Picton-Turbervill said the children were running in and out of the house and she and her husband were watching television, when the robbers struck and ordered them to lie down on the floor.
"They shouted: 'Sleep! Sleep!' and 'Money! Money!' We all went through to the dining room and lay on the floor.
"My husband asked them not to hurt the children. He also asked if the children could go through to another room, but the robbers didn't want that," she said.
"One robber suddenly shot my husband who was lying half curled up behind me, through the eye.
"He collapsed against me. Samantha closed little Gregory's eyes as he lay crying, because she didn't want him to see how their father bled to death, and Bryony and Natasha just lay dead still.
"They took me through the house into our room, where I gave them my jewellery box and my husband's wallet.
The robbers took her back to the children before fleeing.
"After they'd left, I put the children into the car and rushed off to Kim's house for help.
"I left the children there and hurried back home to be with my husband while we waited for the police," she wept.
Hugo Minnaar, a rescue worker at LifeMed, said that when they arrived at the scene, the husband was lying on the lounge floor in a critical condition.
"We put him on life support and took him through to the Little Company of Mary Hospital where he died later," said Minnaar.
Son flying from England
"There was nothing they could do for him," said Ursula.
She said Jamie would be flying to South Africa on Monday to be with the family.
It was not clear on Sunday if Selebi was aware of the murder so close to his house.
National police spokesperson Sally de Beer could not say if Selebi would visit the Picton-Turbervill family to express his condolences, but said "if he did do so, he would prefer to keep it private".
01-07-2008, 02:31 AM #1832
01-07-2008, 04:57 PM #1833
Partye soek stadstrategie vs. misdaad
Hoe kan die misdaad-tsoenami in die ooste van Pretoria gestuit word?
Opposisiepartye in die Tshwane-metroraad het gister hul kommer hieroor uitgespreek nadat verskeie mense die afgelope paar dae in veral die ooste van Pretoria onder gewelddadige huisrowers deurgeloop het.
Mnr. Conrad Beyers, VF+-raadslid, sê Pretorianers moet dringend herbesin oor misdaadvoorkoming en stel voor dat die misdaadkrisis op ’n beraad in die hoofstad bespreek word.
“Elke gemeenskap het ’n misdaadbekampingstrategie en elke individu se woning is beveilig. Dit is ongelukkig nie meer genoeg nie,” meen Beyers.
Die VF+ het in ’n verklaring verwys na die Harms-gesin van The Wilds-veiligheidskompleks in die ooste van Pretoria wat uit hul huis getrek het nadat gewapende rowers verlede week drie keer binne ses uur by hulle toegeslaan het.
Beeld het gister ook berig hoe mnr. Fred Picton-Turbervill Saterdagaand in sy huis in Waterkloofrif voor sy vrou en kinders doodgeskiet is.
“Dit is lankal duidelik dat inwoners nie op owerhede kan staatmaak om misdaad te bekamp nie.”
Beyers sê dit is onrusbarend dat tot mense in veiligheidskomplekse deesdae sagte teikens is.
“Dit is nie meer voldoende dat elke gemeenskap in isolasie na sy eie veiligheid omsien nie. ’n Oorkoepelende teenmisdaadstrategie vir die hele stad is van uiterste belang. ’n Beraad is nodig waar alle gemeenskappe en rolspelers aan die beplanning deelneem.”
Volgens Beyers word die beraad vir Februarie in die vooruitsig gestel.
Me. Karen Meyer, die DA se woordvoerder oor gemeenskapsveiligheid, het in reaksie gesê die tyd vir praat is verby.
“Inwoners kan ongelukkig net soveel doen. Misdaad gaan nie afneem alvorens die regering nie besef hoe ernstig die misdaadsituasie werklik is nie.”
Sy het gesê nóg die polisie nóg die land se regstelsel boesem tans vrees onder misdadigers in.
Volgens Meyer is daar nog nie genoeg metropolisielede in Pretoria nie.
“Dit is maklik om te sê daar is 200 nuwe lede in diens geneem elke keer wanneer daar in die raad oor misdaad gepraat word.
“Maar hoe en waar word die hulle ontplooi? Ek sien hulle beslis nie in woonbuurte nie.”
Me. Dikeledi Lehobye, lid van die burgemeesterskomitee belas met gemeenskapsveiligheid, het gesê dit is hartseer dat die Picton-Turbervill-gesin “ ’n vader” verloor het.
01-07-2008, 05:02 PM #1834
Gee pad al is koeëls nog in hom
Roodepoort. – Die man wat die naweek vier keer geskiet en toe vasgebind is deur mans wat hul as polisielede voorgedoen het, het homself uit die Leratong-hospitaal ontslaan.
Mnr. Dieter Hinz (42), ’n motorwerktuigkundige, is Vrydagaand by sy huurhuis op ’n roosplaas in die Kromdraai-omgewing buite Krugersdorp aangeval.
Mans wat hul as polisielede voorgedoen het, het hom aangerand en vuurwapens en geld geëis voordat hulle hom vier keer geskiet het.
Hy was eergister nog in ’n bestendige toestand in die Leratong-hospitaal, waar hy gewag het dat koeëls uit sy regtervoet, linkerbors en linkerbobeen verwyder moes word.
Me. Phumzile Mdlalose, hospitaalwoordvoerder, sê Hinz het hom eergister op eie risiko uitgeboek, sonder dat hy geopereer is.
01-07-2008, 05:06 PM #1835
01-07-2008, 05:13 PM #1836
Police: Report missing persons
Johannesburg - Rustenburg police are appealing to the public to report missing persons - especially the elderly - following high incidents of kidnapping and robbery in Zeerust, assistant commissioner William Mpembe said on Monday.
Superintendent Louis Jacobs said since January last year, elderly people have been kidnapped and robbed - some have even been found murdered.
"Elderly people who had large sums of money in their bank accounts were targeted. The suspects befriended them after they withdrew money. They would trick them to get hold of their identity documents, bank cards and pin numbers," he said.
Three people have been arrested for theft and murder of elderly people in the Zeerust area, while four persons have been arrested for taking money from the elderly.
Assistant Commissioner Mpembe requested members of the public to accompany elderly relatives to the bank, especially when they wished to withdraw, or deposit money.
"Every possible measure should be taken to prevent elderly people from becoming the target of criminals, whose main aim is to rob them from their well earned money," he said.
01-08-2008, 01:30 AM #1837
Soektog na 2 vermiste mans uitgebrei
SUID-AFRIKANERS oor die wêreld heen soek nou na die vermiste Bloemfonteiner en sy Britse vriend wat sedert Kersdag iewers in Afrika vermis is.
Mnr. André Snyman, stigter van eBlockwatch, die organisasie wat hom veral toespits op vermistes, sê die foto van mnr. Shaun Stevenson (27) van Bloemfontein en sy Engelse vriend, mnr. Radek Vecera, wat in Volksblad gepubliseer is, is nou op byna elke lamppaal in Wes-Afrika.
Snyman sê: “Ons konsentreer nou veral op Shaun en Radek se situasie. Dié avonturiers se familie en vriende is rasend van bekommernis nadat hulle niks meer van hulle hoor nie.
“ ’n Groep om dié twee te soek en om familielede te ondersteun is selfs al op Facebook begin.”
Snyman sê: “Ek het Vrydag met Shaun se ouers, Eleanor en Arnie, van Bloemfontein gesels. Ons het reeds ’n e-pos na 25 000 Suid-Afrikaners wat in en om Afrika bly of kontakte het, oor Shaun gestuur.
“Almal praat van dié twee vermistes en ons vorder goed. ’n Britse vrou het my gister gebel met inligting oor Shaun.
“Haar kêrel is op presies dieselfde roete in Afrika as Shaun-hulle. Sy het kontak met haar kêrel en hy het vir haar gesê almal praat oor die twee Suid-Afrikaners wat voor hulle op motorfietse ry.
“Shaun en Radek is glo net ’n kort entjie voor hulle, maar die Engelse ou is nog nie in Kameroen, waar Shaun en Radek op 25 Desember laas gesien is nie.
“Dié Engelse outjie sal ons op die hoogte hou van verwikkelinge,” sê Snyman.
Shaun se ouers en vriende sê hulle voel nog nie “ongemaklik” of dat Shaun iets oorgekom het nie. Hulle bly baie positief.
Snyman sê om Shaun-hulle te help kan enigiemand gratis op hul webtuiste registreer by www. eblockwatch.co.za.
Hy sê vir enige dringende nuus kan mense vir hom ’n SMS by 082-561-1065 stuur.
Belangstellendes kan op die webruimte http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms gaan kyk waar Shaun en sy vriend se roete van Londen deur Afrika tot in Suid-Afrika is.
Stevenson, ’n oudleerling van die Hoërskool Brebner in Bloemfontein, en Vecera is sedert 31 Oktober op dié motorfietstoer.
Kameroen is die laaste plek waarvandaan dié twee hul families op Facebook laat weet het dit gaan goed.
01-08-2008, 01:38 AM #1838
I didn't stop shooting - wife
Pretoria - "I didn't stop shooting until my pistol was empty and I think I may have hit one," said Marietha Holmes as she described how she and her husband had been robbed at gunpoint for the second time in a fortnight.
Marietha, 42, of Marais Street in Mnandi, Centurion, said on Monday at least three armed robbers were involved in a hold-up at their home about 19:30 on Sunday.
Her husband, Charles, 47, was wounded in his legs and his hand. He is recovering in Kalafong Hospital.
Marietha said she and her husband now carried their pistols with them from early evening.
On Sunday, they had just unloaded their quad bikes after an outing and were in the house when the robbers struck.
Marietha said: "I was busy sorting washing and my husband was walking down the passage when he heard our glass door slamming shut.
'The robbers ran right past me'
"At first, he thought it was the dog, but when he turned around they started firing and nearly shot off his a foot.
"He fell, pulled out his pistol and returned fire. When I heard him shouting and shots being fired, I ran out of the kitchen door. The robbers ran right past me," said Marietha.
She had her pistol with her, so she took it out and fired at the men.
"I just shot, non-stop. My husband did a kind of leopard crawl to the kitchen, shouting 'Shoot them, shoot them!'"
Marietha said her husband underwent an operation on Sunday afternoon to remove the bullets from his legs and his hand.
"They put a pin into his leg to help it heal. One of his fingers was virtually crushed and doctors had to put pins into his hands."
Marietha said that during the first armed robbery on December 21, two robbers held her up.
"They also shot two of my dogs."
01-08-2008, 06:03 AM #1839
Cops probe 'fortress' robbery
Johannesburg - No arrests had been made after a 47-year-old man was shot in the head and killed in a robbery at his home in Waterkloof Ridge, Pretoria police said on Tuesday.
Captain Lucas Sithole said the robbery occurred on Saturday night where two armed men entered the home and took a laptop, four cell phones, a handbag and R500 in cash.
They then shot the man, Fred Picton-Turberville, in the head and fled the scene. Picton-Turberville, believed to be a British national, died later in hospital.
It was reported Picton-Turberville's wife and four young children watched in horror as an armed robber shot him in the head during the house robbery.
On Sunday, the report said, the house in Waterkloof stood abandoned and neighbours had no idea how the robbers had managed to invade what seemed to be an impregnable fortress.
The walls around the house were more than two metres high. Both these walls and the motorised palisade gate had electric fencing. From the street only the garage was visible and it seemed impossible to enter the premises from a neighbouring property.
Neighbours on both sides of the Picton-Turbervilles reportedly said they had not heard anything at the time and only learned about the tragedy when contacted by the media.
01-08-2008, 07:03 AM #1840
Shot three times and still alive
A fun-filled weekend of quad biking ended in a wild shootout for a family from Monavoni, south of Pretoria.
Charles Holmes, 47, was shot three times by at least two gunmen, who snuck up behind him while he was unloading his vehicle on Sunday night.
Holmes and his wife Marietha exchanged fire with the attackers, who fled without taking anything.
Holmes was shot in the hand, upper left leg and left ankle and is recovering at Kalafong Hospital.
Speaking from his hospital bed, Holmes said he, his wife and son Shaun, nine, had arrived home at about 7pm. His brother Eddie arrived from Krugersdorp to drop off their mother Marie and left.
Shortly afterwards he started unloading the car. "I was just about finished and went back inside to call Shaun to do a few last things.
"As I walked into the kitchen, I turned around for some reason and saw two men standing about 2m from me. I turned around and they started shooting.
"I dropped down and pulled my knees into my chest to protect myself," he said.
Holmes said he pulled his pistol from his pocket and returned fire.
He only realised he had been shot when he tried to stand up and fell.
"Marietha heard the commotion and went outside. She also fired at them," he said.
Marietha said she had been unpacking clothes in a room when she heard her husband shout out.
"I came out the back door and saw the men running. I opened up on them and emptied my magazine."
Marietha said she called the police, ambulance services, Eddie and friends and then tried to stop Charles's bleeding.
LifeMed Ambulance Services spokesperson Trevor Kolk said they received the call at about 9pm.
When they arrived Holmes was lying outside the kitchen door, conscious but in a lot of pain.
This is not the first time that the Holmes family has been attacked.
Holmes said that on December 22 a number of men attacked Marietha in the kitchen.
Their dog chased the men all the way to the gate. Holmes said crime in the area was a problem because of its proximity to Olievenhoutbosch and Diepsloot.