EASTERN CAPE. – Three masked men allegedly bound a 77-year-old woman and her son during a home robbery on a farm in the Kareedouw area on Wednesday evening and assaulted the son with a stick. Police were called to the farm at approximately 21:30 following a complaint, after which a search for the three suspects was launched.
Captain Marius McCarthy, police spokesperson, says to Nuusflits the woman was about to let her dog out when she spotted the three men at the door. They allegedly forced her to let them into the house and bound her in a bedroom with shoelaces. The men allegedly forced her son out of the shower and beat him with a stick. He sustained head and shoulder injuries before they bound him with an electrical cord.
The suspects allegedly stole three cellphones, jewellery and an unknown amount of cash and fled on foot. The mother and her son freed themselves and ran to a neighbouring farm to get help.
A case of housebreaking and robbery is being investigated by police. Anyone with information can call the Kareedouw police station or Stop Crime on 08600 10111.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
