And yet another armed robbery

Update: Danielle van Eck reports: Last night at 7.15, 2 armed men entered the property through Papale empty property again.

They tried to break in to my son’s car, he shouted at them through the window upon which they proceeded to shoot 5 shots at him.

The police responded within 10 minutes.

These robbers are no longer just interested in stealing property, they now come to kill.

How is it that the police has not put a task team together to catch these criminals that repeatedly attack us????

 From now on, we will shoot on sight!


Update: It is worth noting that my son raised the alarm two days ago when he saw a white vehicle coming up our driveway. This was at around 3.30pm. When I made my way down the driveway, the vehicle rapidly reversed and drove off towards Ronald.

It all happened so fast we did not get a licence plate or vehicle ID. But Nic's report re a white vehicle cruising, and the Van Ecks' and Michelle Nel's armed robbery attempts fit the picture. In hindsight, we were probably very lucky.

And an update from Michelle Nel:

They came to Roger’s house next. At around 8pm we had an incursion at 52 3^rd road at Roger Price. We heard the Van Eck gunshots and were just about to leave when Roger said I should get inside the house and he want to investigate. He saw three men walking down Third Road as he was pulling open his gate. One had a gun. Roger raced back inside the house. The one guy followed him in and next thing he was standing at Roger’s locked back door (glass) with his gun cocked. Roger had set off the alarm deliberately. I ran and hid and Roger called the cops. They and ADT were there in 5 minutes.

Nic Nel reports:

Another armed robbery at Van Ecks 53 2nd Road tonight

About 19h45 Gerrit’s wife saw movement at their cars outside. Gerrit shouted out and then ducked when he heard a gun being cocked. As he stepped back 3 bullets fired through his window into the wall behind him narrowly missed him.

Fortunately Juan had the San Car Sector numbers I sent them yesterday and the police were quickly on the scene but could not get access until I arrived and pointed them to the lower gate to the property.

Access to the property was again gained from the Papale empty stand at 54 3rd Road. I could raise neither Dave nor Danielle on the cell phone numbers I have for them.

A black old Golf 1 Reg. XCH676GP with 4/5 males was seen slowly cruising 3rd Road this afternoon.

I used to get crime tip-offs against the payment of a R30 reward cell-phone recharge.  This system has been abrogated because the Provincial CPF Chairman, Andy Mashaile, threatened me with arrest, claiming that only the Police and the NIA are allowed to gather “intelligence”. Despite repeated requests, he has not been able to refer me to a legal passage supporting his intimidation. His prohibition of my system has undoubtedly contributed to the resurgence in crime in Linbro Park.

I repeat my mail of yesterday:

The Police have introduced a system of Sector Policing where the public have direct access to at least 2 Police vehicles on Patrol in a particular Sector – much like we can call ADT Car direct. For the most part, response time is about 5 minutes.

The Linbro sector police vehicles are

0716756028

0716756129

The ADT car is

0834112664

Note the numbers before it is too late.