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Police reports Oct 6 2009

 

20091004 Henry Locke, 39, smallholder Cullinan, murdered execution-style in front of paraplegic son and teen daughter

Locke Monique daughter murdered Henry, 39, Elands farm Cullinan Oct42009 2009-10-06 Picture by Beeld newspaper : Monique Locke, 13, daughter of murdered smallholder/electrician Henry Locke, 39: she said her paraplegic brother Dawie, 23, prayed to and begged his father's killers to 'not take away my mother and sister'..

October 6 2009 -- Virginia Keppler of Beeld newspaper reports that Dawie, the paraplegic son of murdered Cullinan  homesteader, automotive-electrician Henry Locke, 39, prayed to and begged three armed black robbers 'not to take away his mother and sister' after they'd shot his father dead in front of the disabled man.

The working-class Afrikaner family was attacked on their Elands farm smallholding in Cullinan on October 4 after their mother Amanda, 43, had stepped outside just before the family was going to bed at 11pm to check why the dogs were barking so loudly. She was forced inside at gun-point.

  • 13-year-old daughter Monique, a grade 7 pupil at the local Cullinan school, told Keppler that her dad was asleep, but that her mom and the two children still were in the living room before going to bed at 11pm when the dogs started barking."My mom took the flashlight and went outside, and was grabbed by one man who was hiding behind the wall at the front door,' she said.

Monique had gone out right behind her mom and saw the attacker grab her mom and two more were heading straight for the teen. She rushed inside and woke up her dad. "When my father came around the living-room corner, they shot him straight in the heart,' she said. He fell in front of the couch and one of the men ordered my mom to sit down. I went to sit right next to my dad and held him tight. He wasn’t armed. “My mom told the three men hat my brother was paraplegic and to please not hurt him - they could take anything they wanted,” so they ripped off her wedding rings from her finger, took a laptop and two cellphones and then left again.' The teenager said she and her mom then tried to load her father into their family  car - but he was too heavy. Mrs Locke then took her paraplegic son and her daughter to a neighbour's house instead - seeking help.

Our own houses already are jails…Right after the murder, the family packed up and moved to Mrs Estelle Maritz – to Mrs Locke's sister's farm near Honingnestkrans north of Pretoria. The sister told Beeld that two fences were cut through to reach the homestead."They destroyed the lives of my sister and her children. We don't want to leave our country. This is our land and our family stays. Our own houses all already are jails,' she said. Police constable Sally Skosana said the 'suspects are not yet apprehended'. She didn't say anything about whether a search party had been launched with the tracks still fresh, however...http://www.beeld.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1928/43eb720cb2b84f66aca6b62419a23f4a/06-10-2009-12-19/Kind_hou_pa_styf_vas_n%C3%A1_hy_in_hart_geskiet_is

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Afrikaner lodger arrested in double-murder of Lettie, 65, and son Schalk Hinrichsen, 34, Randgate, Krugersdorp

2009-10-06 RANDGATE, KRUGERSDORP -- Amanda Roestoff reports that a lodger who disappeared after the double-murder of a working-class couple of Randgate, Mrs Lettie Hinrichsen and her semi-disabled son Schalk, 34, has been arrested. The suspect also pointed police to the Hinrichsen’s family car, parked in underground parking-at Westgate-shopping centre in Roodepoort. He was arrested after phoning 'certain people in Krugersdorp' at around 4pm, said police inspector Karen Jacobs of Honeydew-police station.

Tried to convince him to hand himself in to police: She said these people had arranged to meet this "Hennie" at the Monument shopping centre in Voortrekker Street to convince him to hand himself over to police. However after he got into these people’s car, he jumped out and fled. The nearby Pick 'n Pay security officials spotted this and called the Honeydew police - who captured this man about three street farther down. He's expected to appear for a remand date in Randfontein magistrate's court on 7 October 2009 as the only suspect to be charged with this double murder and armed robbery.One of Mrs Hinrichson's daughters, Mrs Martie Oosthuizen, 39, said 'she was glad he was caught'.The funeral arrangements for the double-murder victims have not yet been made. http://www.beeld.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1928/52d007ea44b8480b99d07a6270056a3c/06-10-2009-08-28/Loseerder_se_vriende_help_hom_vastrek_n%C3%A1_moord

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Where are the cell keys? Dramatic rescue from burning Pretoria law courts:

Pretoria Court Trapped prisoners rescue Craig Nieuwenhuizen pic Beeld Oct42009 October 5 2009 - The group of twelve trial-awaiting prisoners in the basement of the burning Pretoria law courts had already been trapped for an hour, struggling to survive in the smoke-filled cells, while fire officials were frantically searching for the police official with the keys...

GREAT RESCUE! this brilliant picture was taken by Beeld photographer Craig Nieuwenhuizen of a gasping prisoner carried out by a burly Pretoria fireman.

The Pretoria fire-department spokesman Console Tleane said the firefighters couldn't find this man, who had been evacuated with all the other personnel, so they had to resort to cutting equipment to saw open the cells. Intially three fire fighters also lost their way down below and court personnel had to go downstairs to show them the way to the cells. Altogether it took two hours before these twelve prisoners could be rescued… The fire 's origin is mysterious: it probably broke out in a storage area right next to the holding cells, he said.

All hell broke lose when smoke started seeping up from below into the court rooms, and security guards burst into the courts in a reportedly high state of excitement, screaming that there was a fire and that everybody had to leave at once. This worked: the courts emptied out within ten minutes of its 400-member personnel and the public – but  somehow, the trial-awaiting prisoners in the cells below had 'stayed behind'. Other prisoners who had already been sentenced and were waiting for transport to various prisons, were meanwhile taken in a long row through the tunnel linking the courts to the Pretoria Central police station.

  • It was quite a sight writes Beeld: prison officials walking around the block with the sentenced prisoners who struggling along in foot-irons... Ten fire-tenders and scores of ambulance were at the scene. It took the fire-department two hours to save the trapped prisoners. Some had to be carried out weeping, gasping for air.
    LifeMed spokesman Ruan Vermaak said two men also sustained 'injuries looking like cutting wounds'.

Courts reopened Tuesday: Mrs Emily Dhlamini regional head of the justice department, didn't explain the lack of coordination between all the services during this emergency. Instead she explained that 'the rescue was made difficult because the keys to the cells couldn't be found...' Chief magistrate Desmond Nair said the courts opened their doors as usual on Tuesday. Cases which were scheduled in now damaged courtrooms will be moved to others, and the periodic court facilities will also be used, he said. However they will have to conduct all their cases in the dark: the electricity remains off 'until the extent of the fire-damage has been established’. Nair said he's asked the justice department to urgently re-examine their evacuation and other emergency procedures.

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“Attacker and police woman in ‘black race-solidarity  against white crime victim”
Cronje Johan 24 assaulted policewoman looking on Witbank Aug 29 2009 roadrageattack August 29 2009 – WITBANK -- Beeld newspaper reports as a caption to this CCTV-picture at a petrol-station in Witbank, Mpumalanga that the man being attacked, 24-year-old Johan Cronjé (24), was arrested by the black policewoman in the foreground – for defending himself. The Afrikaner has lodged a complaint with the Independent Complaint Directorate for false arrest and for this policewoman failing to intervene while he was being assaulted by a man with a heavy weapon – as seen on this photo from the shop’s CCTV videos. However the Afrikaner still has to appear in court on a charge of having kicked his attacker’s car, ordered to shop up on 18 November 2009 after getting bail. 

Apparently the entire fracas started when the two men showed rude gestures in traffic which created what the police say is a road-rage incident.  After various rude hand-gestures from both sides in traffic between the two men, the Afrikaner had stopped at the Total petrol station in Kiepersol Street, followed by  the other motorist,  who then assaulted the Afrikaner twice – oncee outside the petrol station and once inside, wielding a heavy wrench. Cronjé said he was just trying to protect himself and didn’t hit this man back – however he admitted that he’d been ‘very frustrated and angry’ by the assaults, and had kicked the other man’s Golf VW. allegedly denting it.

After the first assault outside, he went inside the petrol station and asked the black policewoman inside for her protection  – but the man followed him and assaulted him again right in front of her eyes, he said. “The black police woman didn’t intervene’ Cronje said. The two men were then involved in a scuffle and the policewoman then told the attacker, a man called Sifiso, to stop his assault – at which point she followed him outside and spoke to him, and at which stage she returned to the shop and arrested Cronjé. He was loaded in a van and left out on a R500 police bond, he said. At the police station the police, he claims in his charge, also would not let him lodge counter-charges against Sifiso.

AfriForum has now taken up his case and have lodged a complaint on his behalf with the Independent Complaints Commission which investigates such matters.

  • “Video material from the petrol station’s security cameras clearly show that Cronjé was assaulted in front of the shop and that he did not hit back, just as he’d said,’ said its spokesman Nantes Kelder.

“This kind of abuse of power is increasing amongst the police and can lead to large civil claims against the policeminister, he said. Police spokesman Capt Eddie Hall has confirmed the ICC complaint. Hall said ‘at this stage of our investigation, it’s not yet known why the police woman didn’t intervene when Cronje was assaulted.. Cronjé verskyn op 18 November weer in die hof. http://perspektiefblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/aanvaller-en-polisievrou-toon.html

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