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Wednesday 6 June 2012
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) ‘Criminals prefer it if you’re home’
Minors injured in ‘drunk’ crash
Robbers get more violent LEON STEENKAMP
House robbers are becoming increasingly brazen and violent when targeting homes with not even security complexes and electrified fencing offering any safety.
Eight people including two children (two and three years old) were injured when the VW kombi they were travelling in overturned and crashed into a cellphone mast on the corner of Sandown and Rochester Roads in West Beach on Saturday night at around 22:00. The driver of the vehicle was on his way to pick up his brother from a nearby restaurant when the accident happened. Police confirmed that they arrested the driver for driving under the influence and reckless and negligent driving. Emergency personnel on site where doubtful whether the twoyearold child whose condition was critical at that stage would survive. Yesterday police could not confirm the child’s current condition. The other occupants were treated for a variety of injuries ranging from a broken leg to head injuries. Photo: Leon Steenkamp
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In the early hours of Monday morning last week an elderly couple (73 and 76) were asleep in their Melkbosstrand home when they awoke and were confronted by three men in their bedroom. The men were armed with a firearm. The couple was tied up and the men fled with cellphones, a laptop and wallet. Later that same morning members of the Milnerton police responded to a house robbery at The Cranes residential complex in Century View, Century City at 05:00. Three men armed with knives broke into one of the ground floor units. The nurse charged with caring for the sickly homeowner of the unit, managed to lock herself in the bathroom. “When everything became quite she came out of the bathroom and phoned the police,” Warrant Officer Daphne Dell of the Milnerton police said. The suspects fled the scene with her handbag and laptop.
After investigating the scene police found a crate positioned next to the boundary wall of the complex and a cushion draped over the electric fencing. “The complex security reported the alarm going off at around 03:00 that morning. We think the suspects scouted the units looking for an opportunity to break in. The nurse opened a bathroom window shortly after waking up,” Dell said. The following day an elderly woman was shot in the arm when she awoke to an intruder towering over her bed. The incident happened at a house in Humewood Drive, Parklands at 08:30. The 65-year-old victim’s daughter who was also asleep woke to the sound of the shot. As she raced out of her bedroom she found a second suspect in the house. Her brother who was working in the garden also raced inside. The robbers fled with cellphones, a laptop and wallets in a Nissan Tiida. The victim was taken to hospital for treatment to the gunshot wound in her right arm. Dell’s says it appears that criminals now prefer to break into homes when the residents are home. “It makes it easier to gain access to things like safes where firearms are mostly kept,” she said.
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