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07-11-2007, 03:27 AM #1041
‘Kapingslagoffer’ slaap in selle
’N“ Kapingslagoffer” van Pretoria het gisteraand in die tronk geslaap omdat die ondersoekbeampte van sy saak nie, soos ooreengekom, by die hof opgedaag het vir sy borgtogaansoek nie.
Mnr. Sarel van der Merwe (26) het na bewering eergistermiddag ’n kaper geskiet toe dié hom op die hoek van D.F. Malanrylaan en Strubenstraat probeer kaap het. Van der Merwe het glo eers sy motor gestop om te gaan kyk of die rower mediese hulp nodig het, maar het geskrik toe ’n groot groep mense op hom toegesak het.
Hy kon nie self die nooddiens-te skakel nie omdat ’n ander rower sy selfoon tydens die kapingspoging gesteel het.
Hy is toe glo onmiddellik na die Brooklyn-polisiekantoor om die saak aan te meld.
Hy is gisteroggend op aandrang van die polisie saam met sy prokureur, mnr. Stef Kruger, na die Pretoria-Sentraal-polisiekantoor.
Hier was die polisie volgens Kruger eers heel geneë om Van der Merwe met ’n waarskuwing vry te laat. Die rower is egter kort ná Van der Merwe se aankoms by die polisiekantoor in die hospitaal dood en die saak is verander van poging tot moord na moord.
Dit het beteken die polisie het nie meer die reg gehad om borgtog toe te staan nie.
Volgens Kruger het die ondersoekbeampte toe steeds ingestem dat hy nie die borgtog sal teenstaan nie en het die twee partye ooreengekom om om 15:00 die borgtogaansoek in die hof te bring.
Kruger het self ’n landdros en staatsaanklaer gereël, maar die “polisie het nooit met die beskuldigde opgedaag nie”.
Sedertdien antwoord die ondersoekbeampte nie sy telefoon nie.
Kruger sê al wat hom pla, is dat die ondersoekbeampte beweer het die borgtogaansoek is nie vir die polisie ’n probleem nie.
“As hulle beswaar gehad het kon hulle net so gesê het, dan sou ek later ’n formele borgtogaansoek gereël het. Dit is vir my absoluut absurd. Dis net 50 tree om te loop van Sentraal (Pretoria Sentraal-polisiekantoor) na die hof toe,” het Kruger vies gesê. Me. Una Louw, Van der Merwe se vriendin, het gesê die situasie onstel haar vreeslik omdat “jy nooit dink as iemand jóú aanval gaan jyself toegesluit word nie”.
Insp. Paul Ramaloka, polisiewoordvoerder, het gisteraand laat aan Beeld gesê hy kan nie juis kommentaar lewer nie omdat hy self ook sukkel om die ondersoekbeampte te bereik.
07-11-2007, 03:43 AM #1042
Klagte teen maats dalk laat vaar
Die moontlikheid bestaan dat die saak waarin sewe hoërskoolvriende aangekla word nadat hulle na bewering ’n restaurantbestuurder geslaan het totdat hy verlam is, van die rol geskrap kan word.
Mnr. William Booth, prokureur vir ses van die mans, het gesê indien die staat nie spesifieke detail oor die beweerde voorval gee nie en élk van die beskuldigdes se beweerde betrokkenheid uitlig nie, gaan hulle aansoek doen dat die saak van die hofrol geskrap word.
Booth het gister aan Die Burger gesê dat dít die volgende stap sal wees indien die staat nie reageer op die bevel van die hof vir dié nadere besonderhede nie.
Mnr. Andrew Merryweather (25), die man wat glo aangeval is, het gister met die hofverskyning in sy rolstoel in die getuiekamer gesit terwyl die verdediging en staat betoë aan streeklanddros Jackie Redelinghuys gerig het.
Merryweather, bestuurder van die restaurant van Theatre on the Bay in Kampsbaai, het gister buite die hof gesê hy koester geen kwade gevoelens teen mnr. Shane Wolendorp (19) van Constantia, ’n voormalige beskuldigde wat nou ’n staatsgetuie is, nie. ’n Familielid van Wolendorp het glo om verskoning gevra.
Die Wynberg-streekhof was gister volgepak met ondersteuners vir al die partye. Mense het selfs die gange volgestaan.
Die sewe jong mans, mnre. Joel Thackway (18) van Vishoek, Liam Hechter (18) van Lakeside, Samuel Davidson (18), Michael Enslin (18), Dane Stefan Killian (18), Justin Maxwell (18) en Oliver Scholtz (18) van Constantia, tans almal studente aan onder meer die Universiteite van Stellenbosch, Kaapstad en Rhodes, staan tereg op aanklagte van poging tot moord en aanranding.
Merryweather is op 9 September verlede jaar by die Engen-vulstasie in Claremont aangeval.
Luidens die klagstaat sou die beskuldigdes hom teen ’n voertuig gegooi en/of geslaan en/of geskop het. Hy was 15 weke in ’n hospitaal. Hy is van onder sy borskas verlam. Sy jonger broer, Nicholas (20), is ook glo dié aand aangeval.
Booth, vir al die beskuldigdes behalwe Davidson, het gesê sy kliënte moet bewus wees van die aantygings voordat hulle pleit.
Hy het gesê daar moet meer sekerheid wees oor wie die beweerde skopwerk, die gooiwerk en die slaanwerk gedoen het en of die groep saam opgetree het. “Die staat moet nog die beskuldigdes se betrokkenheid bewys . . . juis omdat so baie aangekla word. Die beskuldigdes is geregtig om hul beweerde verbintenis te weet.”
Die staat voer aan al die beskuldigdes het met ’n gemeenskaplike doel opgetree. Mnr. Nico Breyl, staatsaanklaer, het gesê die staat is nog nie in ’n posisie om detail oor die aanval te lewer nie. “Die staat gebruik ook omstandigheidsgetuienis. Die getuies moet nog voor die hof geplaas word.”
Die beskuldigdes is glo deur ooggetuies saam op die toneel gesien en ook waar hulle in ’n voertuig weggery het.
Redelinghuys het die saak tot vandag uitgestel.
07-11-2007, 05:26 AM #1043
Boy in critical condition after stabbing
A twelve-year-old boy who was stabbed several times during a robbery at his Heidelberg home is still in a critical condition, a Milpark Hospital nurse said on Wednesday.
Sister Linda Pretorius told Sapa the boy was put on to a ventilator and was in intensive care.
"He is very ill and is still in a critical condition."
Pretorius, who attended to the boy on his arrival, said that recovery in children took longer than adults since their organs were in close proximity to each other.
"He sustained a fair amount of stab wounds, some serious and some not so serious.
"The close proximity of the organs means that a number of organs were damaged.
"Lets hope he recovers well," she said.
The boy was home alone with his eight-year-old sister when a suspected robber entered the house and attacked him around 10.45am, on Tuesday.
His sister hid herself during the attack and was not harmed.
The boy staggered outside to the pavement where he collapsed and was found by a passing motorist and a neighbour.
He was stabilised at a nearby hospital and then airlifted to Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg.
07-11-2007, 08:35 AM #1044
Top cop dies in high-speed chase crash
A SENIOR police officer from an elite unit investigating the hijacking of Volkswagen-leased vehicles in Uitenhage and Port Elizabeth died during a high speed chase on Monday night.
Yesterday afternoon family members, friends and colleagues of Superintendent Helgard Fourie, 37, were still battling to come to terms with his untimely death.
The father of two lost control of the Volkswagen Jetta he was driving while in pursuit of a suspect and crashed into a pole near Neave Township on the N2 towards Colchester.
He had left his house at 7.45pm after receiving information about the hijacking of a leased Volkswagen Velocity in KwaNobuhle.
The hijacked vehicle Fourie was chasing was one of two leased vehicles hijacked in the Uitenhage area on Monday night.
Superintendent Rodney Visser, head of Port Elizabeth‘s organised crime unit, said the hijacking of leased vehicles had decreased due to the hard work of Fourie and his team.
He said between one and two leased vehicles had been hijacked every week for the last month.
Police spokesman Inspector Gerda Swart said Fourie gave chase and called two organised crime unit members for back-up when he saw the hijacked vehicle speeding past him on the N2 .
“One of the members from organised crime who responded to the deceased‘s request for back-up found the car on it‘s roof. He called the emergency services but it was already too late. Fourie died on the scene.”
Fourie‘s brother, Captain Rynardt Fourie, told The Herald that his brother had given his heart and soul to the police since joining the force at the age of 19.
“He constantly worked extra hours and did not rest until he caught his suspects,” said Rynardt.
Family and friends described Fourie as a motivated policeman who was always willing to go the extra mile for the South African Police Service.
He said the family would request a formal inquiry into the accident. Fourie‘s wife, Rina, was unable to speak to the media. She collapsed due to shock and had to be sedated.
Volkswagen SA communications head Bill Stephens expressed his sympathy for the Fourie family yesterday. “We at Volkswagen work closely with the task team and the hijackings of leased Volkswagen vehicles have decreased tremendously compared to last year,” said Stephens.
Fourie is survived by his parents, his wife, his sons Estiaan, 12, and Christian, 10, his brother and a sister, Mariska.
Swart said the police were still searching for the hijackers. Fourie will be cremated at the NG church in Uitenhage at 11am tomorrow.
07-11-2007, 08:55 AM #1045
Man scares off hijackers
Johannesburg - A Germiston father scared off four armed hijackers on Wednesday by opening fire on them with a pistol, police said.
Captain Steady Nawa said a 20-year-old man had just parked his Opel Corsa outside his girlfriend's home in Germiston when a car with four occupants pulled up behind him.
Two of the men got out of the car and pointed a firearm at the boyfriend before taking his car keys.
His girlfriend's father, who had come to open the door for him, went back inside the house to fetch his pistol.
He fired five shots at the gunmen as they were reversing the Corsa, Nawa said.
The hijackers got out of the Corsa and ran back to their white VW Polo and drove off. No one was hurt in the incident.
Nawa urged anyone with information about the incident to contact Inspector Jacques Goosen on 082 335 2189.
07-11-2007, 09:00 AM #1046
07-11-2007, 09:07 AM #1047
Boy's stabbing 'unacceptable'
Johannesburg - Police are still investigating the stabbing of a twelve-year-old Heidelberg boy, Captain Jethro Mtshali said on Wednesday.
"Investigations indicate that there was more than one person who entered the house," he said.
Police found that nothing was stolen from the house.
"What has been done is totally unacceptable and police are working very hard to reach an arrest," said Mtshali.
Meanwhile a Milpark Hospital nurse said that the boy was still in a critical condition.
Sister Linda Pretorius said the boy was put on to a ventilator and was in intensive care.
Boy was home alone
The boy was home alone with his eight-year-old sister when a suspected robber entered the house and attacked him at about 10.45 on Tuesday.
07-11-2007, 09:29 AM #1048
Man shot in the chest
A 50-year-old man was shot in the chest in his garage at home in Germiston on Wednesday, police said.
Captain Steady Nawa said the man had driven into the garage of his Woodkirk street home when his son inside the house heard a gunshot.
He went to investigate and found his father bleeding in his car. The son heard the sound of a car speeding off.
The man was in a critical condition in hospital.
No arrests have been made and the motive for the attack was unknown, Nawa said
07-11-2007, 01:50 PM #1049
Cape Town - A 73-year-old woman was found dead in the bathroom of her home in Simon's Town on Wednesday, Western Cape police said.
Inspector Bernadine Steyn said police received a complaint of a house breaking at the woman's property in Dorries Drive.
The body of Gwen Wall was found on the floor with an open wound in her head.
"Police searched the premises and surrounding area for clues and found a jewellery box containing jewellery and toiletries under nearby bushes," said Steyn.
Preliminary investigations revealed that an intruder had gained entrance to the house through an open bathroom window.
A 20-year-old man from Ocean View was later arrested.
He would appear in Simon's Town Magistrate's Court soon on charges of murder, housebreaking and theft.
07-11-2007, 06:22 PM #1050