Sunward Park couple wake up to gun-toting robber
To make it worse, the thugs remained in the house until 10pm, when she managed to escape.
“All that time I was paralysed with fear – I am still scared because at the back of my house there’s an open veld and it’s a place for thugs to hang out. That place poses a great danger to us because those thugs sit there and analyse everything we do,” said the woman, who wished to remain anonymous.
She said she was watching television in her bedroom when she heard a noise coming from the dining room and went to investigate.
According to her, the two men broke the window to gain access to the house.
She said the robber and his accomplice pointed a gun at her, told her to shut up and move back to the bedroom, as she was screaming.
The two thugs gathered her valuables such as a TV set, her son’s PlayStation, cellphones, DVD player, computer, as well as her 26-year-old son’s clothes.
Furthermore, they stole an amount of R6 000 in cash before demanding her car keys but she said she did not know where they were.
“I then told them to help me search for them – I told them to look in the bedroom while I checked in other rooms.
“While they were busy in the bedroom I opened the door and ran to my neighbour’s house.
“When we came back we noticed that my belongings were gone and they escaped by jumping the fence at the back of my house where there’s an open veld with tall grass,” the woman said.
The woman suspects there was someone who was also waiting there to receive the stolen goods as they jumped the fence.
She suspects that the two men knew that she lives alone and that’s why they took time robbing her house before leaving.
The Boksburg police confirmed that a case of house robbery has been opened and is being investigated.
