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02-03-2010, 03:52 AM #5521
Vrou in huis oorval en met mes gesteek
Klerksdorp. – ’n Aanvaller met “ ’n bos bloedrooi gekleurde hare” het ’n 59-jarige ouma eergister helder oordag aangeval in die huis waar sy en haar man die afgelope 30 jaar bly.
Hy het ’n sening in haar been met ’n knipmes afgesteek en haar in die gesig gesteek toe sy ’n ruit met haar vuis uitgeslaan het om die bure se aandag te trek.
Die ouma van Randlespark wat uit vrees verkies om anoniem te bly, meen haar aanvaller, van so 30 jaar oud, het haar bewegings ’n paar dae lank dopgehou voordat hy toegeslaan het. “Ek het wasgoed gewas en was in en uit by die huis gewees. Ek het op die bank gesit en lees terwyl ek gewag het totdat die masjien klaar is.
“Die volgende oomblik was die man, met ’n klapmus, in my kombuis. Ek het hom dadelik gevra wat hy soek.”
Uit pure skok het sy die indringer se mus oor sy gesig geruk en kon dus sien hoe hy lyk.
“Hy het ’n langerige knipmes (flip knife) uitgeruk en my in Engels gevloek. Hy het my kamer toe gevat. Ek het deurentyd gesmeek hy moet my asseblief nie doodmaak nie. Hy kon alles vat; my hele huis...Jy bid heeltyd. Die onsekerheid of hy jou gaan doodmaak is die ergste.”
Terwyl die man in haar kamer rondgekrap het, het die slagoffer haar kamervenster met haar vuis uitgeslaan.
Die booswig het haar toe in die been gesteek en ’n sening afgesteek. Hy het haar ook geskop en in die gesig gesteek. Sy het kneusplekke, wonde en letsels aan die lyf. Hy het haar weer gevloek en gewaarsku om nie vir hom te jok nie.
“Ek moes vir hom die kluissleutel gee. Hy het ’n bedrag kontant, ’n vuurwapen en alles wat binne die kluis was gevat. Hy het my eers in my kas toegesluit en daarna in ’n spaarkamer se kas.
“Toe ek hoor hy is weg, het ek die kas oopgeskop en by die bure gaan hulp soek. Die hele huis was met bloed besmeer.
“Ek glo hy het my nie verkrag nie omdat ek hom deurentyd gewaarsku het my man is op pad huis toe.’’
Familielede en vriende wat die vrou in die Wilmed Park- private hospitaal besoek het, is veral ontstoke omdat die aanvaller steeds eergisteraand ’n selfoon wat hy van haar gesteel het, beantwoord het.
“Dis baie arrogant.”
Insp. Wilmarie van der Merwe het bevestig die polisie ondersoek ’n klag van huisroof. Teen druktyd is niemand nog in hegtenis geneem nie.
Red-haired robber knifes gran
Klerksdorp – A man with brightly-dyed red hair attacked a 59-year-old granny in the middle of the day in the house where she and her husband had been living for the past 30 years.
He used a pocket knife to sever a tendon in her leg and stabbed her in the face when she broke a window to try to get the neighbours' attention.
The granny from Randlespark wanted to remain anonymous out of fear for her attacker, whom she guessed to be about 30 years old. She believed he had been watching her for a few days before attacking her.
"I had been doing laundry and was in and out of the house. I sat on the bench reading while I waited for the machine to finish washing.
"The next moment the man, wearing a balaclava, was in my kitchen. I immediately asked him what he wanted."
She was so shocked that she pulled the man's balaclava from his face and was able to see what he looked like.
"He pulled out a longish flip knife and swore at me in English. He took me to my room. I pleaded with him the whole time not to kill me. He could take everything; my whole house…You pray the whole time. The uncertainty whether he will kill you or not is the worst part."
While the man rifled through her room, the woman smashed the window by hitting it with her fist.
The thug then stabbed her in the leg and slashed the tendon. He also kicked her and stabbed her in the face.
She sustained several cuts, bruises and injuries. He also swore at her again and warned her not to lie to him.
"I had to give him the keys to the safe. He took cash, a firearm and everything inside the safe. He at first locked me in my cupboard and then in the cupboard in the spare room."
"When I heard that he had left, I kicked open the cupboard and went to the neighbours to get help. The whole house was covered in blood."
"I believe he didn't rape me because I warned him throughout that my husband was on his way home."
Family members and friends who visited the woman in the Wilmed Park private hospital were especially upset as the attacker on Monday night had still answered the phone that he had stolen from her.
"That is very arrogant."
02-03-2010, 03:55 AM #5522
10111 - Skande
’n Polisiereservis wat drie keer tydens ’n huisrooftog in Murrayfield, Pretoria, raak geskiet is, kon ná vier oproepe na 10111 steeds nie reaksie van die polisie kry nie.
Die aanval op sers. Johnny de Jager (52), ’n reservis van die Villieria-polisiekantoor, was Vrydag, dieselfde dag dat sowat 50 000 polisielede nasionale polisiedag in Bloemfontein gevier het.
De Jager het gister vertel hy en me. Karen Victor, sy vriendin, het hul storie Vrydagaand omtrent agt keer vergeefs aan die 10111-inbelsentrum se operateurs vertel.
“Hulle het een keer gevra of Murrayfield in Johannesburg is.
“ ’n Ander keer het hulle gesê hulle verstaan nie die (prioriteits)kode (wat die prioriteit van ’n klagte beskryf) wat ek vir hulle gegee het nie. Daarby kon hulle nie Engels verstaan of ordentlik praat nie.”
Die paartjie het in De Jager se woonstel in ’n afgebakende veiligheidsgebied gesit en koffie drink toe hulle meteens in twee vuurwapens se lope vasgekyk het.
“Die een het my laat sit en op die kop geslaan. Ek het afgekyk, want elke keer as ek opkyk, het hy my weer geslaan. Hulle het haar (Victor) ook baie geklap,” het De Jager gesê.
“Hy het heeltyd gesê: ‘I’ll kill you.’
“Hy het toe die rewolwer teen my kop gedruk en die sneller getrek. My ore het getuit. Ek het gesoek vir die tekens van bloed wat vloei en die bene wat lam raak, maar daar was niks. Ek weet nie hoe dit gebeur het nie, maar hy het my skrams op die agterkant van my kop getref.”
Die twee rowers het die paartjie in die badkamer ingedwing. Intussen het De Jager sy vasgebinde hande losgewikkel.
Een het ’n duvet oor Victor se kop gegooi. Toe die ander man inkom, het De Jager hom gegryp en teen die muur gegooi. De Jager het die rower se vuurwapen, wat in die wasbak geval het, gegryp en ’n skoot afgevuur.
Een rower het uitgehardloop terwyl die ander op De Jager geskiet en sy pinkie getref het. Hulle het begin stry waarna De Jager nog ’n skoot afgevuur het. Die rower het teruggeskiet en De Jager in die arm getref.
Albei rowers het weggehardloop. Dis toe sy probleme met 10111 begin het. “Ek het kalm gebly en net die relevante inligting gegee wat die polisievoertuig in staat sou stel om by die toneel uit te kom,” het De Jager gesê. “Die operateur het gesê hy weet nie waar Murrayfield is nie.
“Sulke situasies sal meer positief uitdraai as die persoon by 10111 die inligting kan verstaan en deurgee. Dit kan ’n verskil van 30 sekondes maak wat daartoe kan lei dat ’n verdagte gevang kan word of nie.”
Ná die vierde probeerslag het Victor met De Jager hospitaal toe gejaag.
’n Polisielid het die volgende oggend by De Jager in die hospitaal aangekom en vir hom gesê hy moet hom bel as hy gesond is.
Dir. Govindsamy Mariemuthoo, kommunikasiehoof van die Gautengse polisie, het gesê die bewerings word in ’n ernstige lig beskou en sal ondersoek word.
No joy from 10111 on Police Day
Pretoria - A police reservist who was shot three times during a robbery at a home in Murrayfield in Pretoria called 10111 four times without getting any help from the police.
The attack on Sergeant Johnny de Jager, 52, a reservist at the Villieria police station occurred on Friday, the same day that about 50 000 police members celebrated national police day in Bloemfontein.
De Jager described on Tuesday how he and his girlfriend, Karen Victor, had told their story about eight times on Friday night to operators at the 10111 call centre - without success.
"They once asked if Murrayfield was in Johannesburg."
"Another time they said they didn't understand the (priority) code (which denoted the priority of a complaint) which I gave them. Additionally, they couldn't understand English or speak it properly."
The couple had been sitting drinking coffee in De Jager's flat in a demarcated security area when they suddenly found themselves looking down the barrels of two firearms.
"One of them made me sit up and then hit me on the head. I looked down because every time I looked up, he hit me again. They also slapped her (Victor) a lot," said De Jager.
"He kept saying: 'I'll kill you'".
"He then put the revolver to my head and pulled the trigger. My ears rang. I looked for signs of flowing blood and legs going weak but there was nothing.
"I don't know how it happened but he only nicked the back of my head."
The two robbers forced the couple into the bathroom. In the mean time De Jager managed to untie his hands.
One of the men had thrown a duvet over Victor's head. When the other man came in, De Jager grabbed him and threw him against the wall. He then grabbed the robber's firearm, which had fallen into the basin, and fired a shot.
One of the robbers ran out while the other shot at De Jager and hit his little finger. They then started arguing after which De Jager fired another shot.
The robber shot back and hit De Jager in the arm.
Both robbers then ran away.
That's when De Jager's problems started with 10111.
"I remained calm and gave only the relevant information which would enable the police vehicle to reach the scene," said De Jager. "The operator said he didn't know where Murrayfield was."
"Situations like these would have a more positive result if the person at 10111 understood the information and could pass it on.
"It could mean a difference of 30 seconds which could lead to a suspect being apprehended or not."
After their fourth attempt to speak to 10111, Victor rushed De Jager to hospital.
A police member arrived at the hospital the following morning and told De Jager to call him after he had recovered.
Communications head of Gauteng police, director Govindsamy Mariemuthoo, said the allegations were regarded in a serious light and would be investigated.
02-03-2010, 03:57 AM #5523
Man veg om lewe nadat hy rower dood
’n Pretoriase man veg om sy lewe nadat hy ’n rower doodgeskiet en dié se makker hom toe raak geskiet het.
Dié 36-jarige man van Meyerspark wie se naam om veiligheidsredes nie bekend gemaak is nie, het die makker vermoedelik ook gewond.
Kapt. Jan Sepato, polisiewoordvoerder, het gister gesê twee rowers het die man, wat alleen in sy huis was, Saterdagaand oorval.
“Die rowers het die man vasgebind,” het Sepato gesê.
“Die man kon daarin slaag om hom los te wikkel en het een van die rowers se vuurwapen afgevat. ’n Struweling het tussen hulle ontstaan en die verdagte is in die keel geskiet.
“Die ander rowers, wat in daardie stadium buite was, het die skoot gehoor, binnetoe gehardloop en op die man geskiet. Die man het teruggeskiet, maar is in die kruisvuur in die bolyf getref.”
Volgens Sepato het die tweede aanvaller gevlug, maar hy is vermoedelik raak geskiet. Die polisie het beslag gelê op twee vuurwapens wat aan die rowers behoort.
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02-03-2010, 03:59 AM #5524
Boef skiet hom raak toe hy wapen vat
’n Rower het homself raak geskiet toe hy tydens ’n huisrooftog op ’n kleinhoewe naby Rayton, oos van Pretoria, ’n vuurwapen uit ’n kluis gehaal het. Een van sy slagoffers is ook gewond.
Drie gewapende mans het ’n egpaar Vrydagoggend omstreeks 01:30 oorval wat in hul bed gelê en slaap het, het insp. Marinda Stoltz, polisiewoordvoerder, gister gesê.
Die mans het ’n houtdeur van die huis op die kleinhoewe in Elandshoek oopgebreek.
“Die verdagtes het ’n vuurwapen teen die man se kop gedruk. Hulle het heeltyd aan die egpaar gesê om rustig te wees, maar die vrou het glo paniekerig geraak en na die badkamer gehardloop. Een van die mans het haar toe in die skouer geskiet,” het Stoltz gesê.
Een van die rowers het die egpaar se kluis oopgebreek en was besig om die handwapen uit die kluis te haal toe ’n skoot afgegaan het. Hy het homself in die onderlyf geskiet.
Volgens Stoltz het die rowers die egpaar in die kombuis aangehou terwyl hulle die huis geplunder het.
Ná ’n ruk het hulle met ’n selfoon en juwele gevlug.
Stoltz het gesê een van die rowers (30) is kort ná die voorval in ’n nabygeleë plakkerskamp in hegtenis geneem.
Hy is in ’n plaaslike hospitaal onder polisiebewaking en sal binnekort in die landdroshof in Cullinan op aanklagte van poging tot moord en huisroof verskyn.
02-03-2010, 04:00 AM #5525
Bizarre twist to suitcase murder
Stellenbosch – In the latest twist to a bizarre murder, the woman who was suspected of murdering a Strand pianist and stuffing the body into a suitcase, committed suicide in prison by hanging herself with a scarf.
The body of Angelique Cilliers, 25 was found on Monday at about 15:50 in Pollsmoor's prison hospital, police spokesperson André Traut said on Tuesday.
It was reported by Rapport that Cilliers had worked as a sex worker and stripper at a Bellville brothel. She also apparently escaped twice from the Noupoort drug rehabilitation centre.
Cilliers was held in Pollsmoor and would have appeared in the Strand Magistrate's Court on Friday for a bail hearing.
She had been arrested on January 19 in Elfriede Weich's flat in the Welgelegen apartment building in Beach Road, Strand, where police found Weich's body in a suitcase under her bed.
When asked what would now happen to the case, Strand police spokesperson Olebogeng Tawana said: "I'm not sure at this stage what will happen to the case."
The slightly-built Cilliers appeared on Monday for the first time in the Strand Magistrate's Court. She tried to hide her face from photographers by covering it with a cream-coloured scarf.
She would have appeared in court for the first time the previous Friday, but was admitted to hospital for low blood sugar, apparently because she had refused to eat.
Journalists given run-around
Traut could not say on Tuesday why Cilliers was being held in Pollsmoor's hospital wing and referred questions about the matter to Pollsmoor. Pollsmoor in turn referred questions to the department of correctional services' regional office spokesperson, Ofentse Morwane.
He did not answer his cellphone and had not responded to messages by late Tuesday night.
Police were also investigating Cilliers's possible involvement in the recent death of a man in Table View.
The fully clothed body of Winston Ferreira, 49, was found on January 16 in the living room of his house. The cause of death was unknown.
Police made the link after Ferreira's bakkie and other items belonging to him were found in her possession. Police at the time said Cilliers and Ferreira were in a relationship.
Cilliers's suicide was the second time in two years that the suspect in a high profile murder case commits suicide in Pollsmoor's hospital.
Cilliers's death came almost two years after Grant Harris, 23, committed suicide on February 6 2008 by taking an overdose of pills in Pollsmoor hospital. He had been accused of the murder of his parents Glenn, 53, and Deborah Harris, 56, on July 10 2007 at their home in Diep River.
Kinkel in tasmoord ná selfmoord in sel
Stellenbosch - In die jongste kinkel in die sage waarin ’n jong vrou na bewering ’n pianis van die Strand verwurg en die liggaam in ’n tas geprop het, het die verdagte haarself met ’n serp opgehang.
Me. Angelique Cilliers (25) se lyk is Maandag omstreeks 15:50 in die Pollsmoor-gevangenis se hospitaal aangetref, het supt. André Traut, ’n polisiewoordvoerder, gister gesê.
Cilliers het vroeër as ’n sekswerker en ontkleedanseres by ’n bordeel in Bellville gewerk, het Rapport berig. Sy het al twee keer uit die Noupoort-dwelmrehabilitasiesentrum ontsnap.
Cilliers is in Pollsmoor aangehou. Haar borgtogverhoor sou Vrydag in die Strand-landdroshof begin het nadat sy op 19 Januarie in me. Elfriede Weich se woonstel in die Welgelegen-woonstelle in Kusweg, Strand, in hegtenis geneem is. Dit is ook toe dat die polisie Weich se lyk in die tas onder haar bed aangetref het.
Haar moontlike betrokkenheid by die onlangse dood van ’n man van Table View word ook deur die polisie ondersoek.
Dit is die tweede keer binne twee jaar wat die verdagte in ’n opspraakwekkende moord in Pollsmoor se hospitaal selfmoord pleeg.
Gevra wat nou van dié saak gaan word, het insp. Olebogeng Tawana, die Strand se polisiewoordvoerder, gesê: “Ek is nie seker wat in hierdie stadium met die saak gaan gebeur nie.”
Die tenger Cilliers het verlede Maandag die eerste keer in die Strand-landdroshof verskyn. Sy het voor en ná die verskyning haar gesig met ’n roomkleurige serp teen fotograwe probeer versluier.
Sy sou die vorige Vrydag die eerste keer in die hof verskyn het, maar is in die hospitaal opgeneem weens lae bloedsuiker, glo omdat sy geweier het om te eet.
Traut kon gister nie sê hoekom Cilliers in Pollsmoor se hospitaal-vleuel aangehou is nie en het vrae hieroor na Pollsmoor verwys. Pollsmoor het vrae na die departement van korrektiewe dienste se streekkantoor-woordvoerder, mnr. Ofentse Morwane, verwys. Hy het nie sy selfoon geantwoord nie en het nie teen druktyd op boodskappe gereageer nie.
Cilliers se betrokkenheid by die dood van mnr. Winston Ferreira (49) van Table View is ook ondersoek. Ferreira se lyk is op 16 Januarie ten volle geklee in die sitkamer van sy woning in Table View gevind. Die oorsaak van sy dood is nog onbekend. Sy is met dié voorval verbind nadat Ferreira se bakkie en ander artikels in haar besit gevind is. Volgens inligting wat die polisie toe bekend gemaak het, was Cilliers en Ferreira in ’n verhouding.
Cilliers se dood is bykans twee jaar ná dié van mnr. Grant Harris (23) wat op 6 Februarie 2008 ná ’n oordosis pille in Pollsmoor se hospitaal dood is.
Hy is daarvan verdink dat hy sy ouers, mnr. Glenn (53) en mev. Deborah Harris (56), op 10 Julie 2007 in hul woning in Dieprivier geskiet het.
02-03-2010, 04:02 AM #5526
Man facing 21 cases gets bail, nabbed hours later
A GELVANDALE, Port Elizabeth, man with 21 housebreaking cases pending against him was arrested early yesterday morning after being released on bail on Monday.
Inspector Gerald van der Merwe said that at about 1.15am yesterday, flying squad members were patrolling Newton Street, Newton Park, when two Atlas security company guards stopped them.
“The security guards told us they had seen a man climb down a pipe from a first-floor building and run towards Cape Road.
“We notified Mount Road police patrol vehicles to help search the area.”
Van der Merwe said that after a 15-minute search, the suspect was spotted by the Atlas guards as he was moving between the yards of houses. “When we took him to the Mount Road police station, the man was well known there for his housebreaking cases – this one would be his 22nd case of housebreaking in the area.”
Van der Merwe said the man had been dubbed “Spiderman” as he could successfully break in to taller buildings.
“It is strange to find a person who has been positively linked to 21 cases but can still get bail,” he said.
“How on earth can a suspect get bail when his fingerprints have linked him to so many break-ins?”
Van der Merwe said computer equipment had been found outside the building the man was suspected to have broken into yesterday. A 22nd case of housebreaking had been opened against him.
02-04-2010, 01:55 AM #5527
Boer dink eers plaasaanval is ’n flou grappie
“Ek het eers gedink iemand maak ’n flou grappie, maar toe daai skoot klap, het ek besef dis nie sommer grappies nie.”
Só het mnr. Mannetjie Pieterse (69), ’n boer van die Schweizer-Reneke-distrik, gister vertel van die aanval op hom, sy seun Johan (27) en hul kuiergaste Maandagaand.
Die aanvallers het die blinde Pieterse jr. eerste in die badkamer gekonfronteer.
Hy is drie keer hard met ’n handwapen oor die kop geslaan voordat die twee booswigte in die gang af gehardloop het.
Die Pieterses en hul gaste was pas terug in die opstal van Houtvolop, die plaas, nadat hulle vroeër buite gebraai het.
“Hulle het by my verbygeskuur. Die een is uit by die oop voordeur. Die ander een het in die vertrek kom staan. Die volgende oomblik sien ek hoe lig hy sy vuurwapen,” het Pieterse sr. gesê.
“Hulle het ons seker dopgehou toe ons gebraai het. Die agterdeur was in ’n stadium oop. Hulle het seker daar ingekom.”
Hulle was in die eetkamer toe sy pa daar ingespring net voordat die geweerskoot geklap het.
Insp. Wilmarie van der Merwe, polisiewoordvoerder in Noordwes, het gesê twee verdagtes is Dinsdagaand aangekeer.
Beeld het verneem hulle is naby die plaas gearresteer. Hulle verskyn na verwagting vandag in die plaaslike landdroshof.
02-04-2010, 01:57 AM #5528
Hartdokter wreed in huis vermoor
’n Afgetrede kardioloog wat jare lank in die Medi-Clinic-harthospitaal in Arcadia gewerk het, is wreed in sy huis in die Newlands Park-aftreeoord in Pretoria vermoor.
Dr. Francois Steenkamp (71) is glo erg aangerand, sy kop stukkend geslaan en sy hande agter sy rug vasgebind.
Mev. Willemina Habile (60), Steenkamp se huiswerker, het gister omstreeks 08:30 op sy lyk afgekom.
Kapt. Colette Weilbach, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê Steenkamp het ’n groot wond aan sy kop gehad en dit lyk of hy met sy moordenaars gestoei het.
Volgens Weilbach was die huis erg geplunder en byna elke hangkas en laai uitgegooi. Daar was egter geen teken van gedwonge toegang nie.
Sy het gesê die moordenaars het met Steenkamp se wit Toyota Tazz gevlug.
Volgens ’n betroubare bron is verskeie meubels in die huis rondgeskuif of -gegooi.
Habile het gister aan Beeld gesê toe sy daar kom, was die veiligheidshek oop en die voordeur op ’n skrefie oop.
“Ek werk gewoonlik Maandae vir mnr. Steenkamp, maar vanoggend moes ek kom, want daar was komberse wat ek moes uithang. Ek het die deur oopgestoot en ingestap. Ek het geroep, maar hy het nie geantwoord nie.
“Toe ek in die kamer kom, het ek voete onder die bed sien uitsteek,” het Habile vertel.
Weilbach het gesê Habile het na die verpleegsters in die aftreeoord gehardloop en hulle het Steenkamp se kinders en die polisie ontbied.
Dié moord is gepleeg kort nadat die onderneming wat verantwoordelik is vir veiligheidsmaatreëls in die oord in die pad gesteek is omdat die onderneming glo “te slap” is.
“Dié man was een van die beste hartspesialiste in Pretoria en nou is hy dood,” het mnr. John Corbitt (72), Steenkamp se buurman, gesê.
Volgens hom het twee mans twee weke gelede eenvoudig by die hoofhek verby die veiligheidswagte gestap en ’n vrou se handsak, selfoon en juwele uit haar huis gesteel.
“Ons (die inwoners) het besluit om ontslae te raak van die veiligheidsonderneming, want hulle het volgens ons nie hul werk gedoen nie. Dié maatskappy sal net tot einde vandeesmaand hier wees en dan neem iemand anders oor.”
Habile het gesê toe sy vir Steenkamp begin werk het, het sy kinders gewaarsku dat hy “baie parmantig” kan wees.
“Maar ons het mekaar lekker verstaan.
“Nou is hy dood, maar ek weet hy is by die Here.”
Steenkamp het die afgelope vyf jaar in die oord gewoon.
Sy twee seuns en dogter wou gister by sy huis nie met die media praat nie.
Weilbach het gesê die Sunnyside-trio-taakspan ondersoek ’n klag van huisroof en moord. Mense met inligting oor die voorval kan die polisie se noodnommer 10111 bel.
Dead doctor found under bed
Pretoria - A 71-year-old retired cardiologist was found dead in his home early on Wednesday morning, Pretoria police said.
Colette Weilbach said Francois Steenkamp, who lived in a retirement home in Newlands, was found on the bedroom floor by his domestic worker around 08:30.
"The body was found tied-up under the bed with a head injury," said Weilbach.
She said there were no signs of forced entry but all the rooms had been ransacked.
"It is assumed that the incident occurred during the previous night. It is believed that the attackers fled with a white Toyota Tazz that belonged to the deceased."
The motive for the murder was not known and it was not clear what had been taken from the house.
A case of murder and house robbery was being investigated.
Steenkamp worked as a cardiologist at the Pretoria Heart Hospital before his retirement and leaves behind a daughter and three sons.
Weilbach said no stone would be left unturned to catch the killers.
Anyone with information was urged to call CrimeStop on 08600-10111.
02-04-2010, 01:59 AM #5529
Wanted man hurt in shoot-out
Pretoria - A man wanted for a series of attempted murders was wounded in a shoot-out with police in Silverton, east of Pretoria, police said on Wednesday.
Captain Shawane Sepato said the man was on the wanted list for a number of attempted murders, the latest committed last year.
He said police flying squad members followed his girlfriend's car from a house in Eersterust after they were tipped off that the 29-year-old man was seen in the car.
The car dropped him at a park in Silverton.
When the police approached him, he fired three shots at them and ran away.
"The police gave chase, warning him to stop but he turned and pointed a firearm at them. The police opened fire and he was hit in the thigh," Sepato said.
The man was arrested and charges of attempted murder and possession of an unlicensed firearm were added to the charges he was wanted for.
He was expected to appear in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court on Thursday.
02-04-2010, 02:01 AM #5530
Gardener denies killing J-Bay woman
A GARDENER has denied killing a Jeffreys Bay businesswoman but could not tell the Port Elizabeth High Court yesterday how he ended up in the roof of her home.
Franklin Stuurman, 27, also of Jeffreys Bay, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Cecile Potgieter, who was 51.
She was found bludgeoned to death inside her Gazelle Street home on the morning of February 20 last year.
Stuurman, who was arrested together with his minor girlfriend who later turned state witness, yesterday denied involvement in the murder.
Giving an account of the day of the murder, Stuurman said he smoked dagga and later proceeded to Potgieter’s house where he worked part-time.
“I pressed the bell and she opened the gate because the deceased knew who I was since I used to work for her on Tuesdays and Fridays,” said Stuurman.
He claimed Potgieter gave him R20, and he requested his girlfriend to go to the shop to buy cigarettes and some cool drinks while he proceeded to work in the garden.
When the girlfriend returned from the shop, Stuurman said they smoked dagga and chatted about what they would be doing when they got home that evening.
“I was at the back of the house busy collecting leaves. But when I went back, I saw her body lying in a pool of blood in the garden. I dragged her inside the house,” said Stuurman.
The gardener, however, was at pains to explain how he later found himself in the ceiling of Potgieter’s house that day.
He kept on saying: “Ek kan nie onthou nie.” (I can’t remember.)
Despite his difficulty in remembering events, Stuurman managed to tell the court how he overheard from the ceiling police officers talking about the “murder” that had happened in the house.
Asked by his defence counsel how Potgieter’s blood was found on him, Stuurman explained that he had fallen from the ceiling into her blood.
According to the police, Potgieter was overpowered at the gate and later dragged inside the house where she was viciously assaulted.
Stuurman claimed Potgieter transferred R10000 into his account minutes before her death.
He said the money was for the woodwork he did at her home and also for buying materials.
The internet transfer for R10000 took place around 10.32am and a panic button was pressed two minutes later. The money was allegedly transferred into a savings account at the Post Office.
The trial continues. Stuurman is out on R2000 bail.