ACCORDING to a home security company, Blue Security, a Gillitts couple was lucky to escape a harrowing home invasion without serious injury on Wednesday, 17 August.
Blue Security operations manager, Brian Jackson, said a gang of three robbers armed with knives held up the couple in their home at around 8.39am.
“The gang ambushed the resident as he walked from the main house to open up the garage. They grabbed him by the neck and forced him back into the house where his wife was in the kitchen,” he said.
According to Jackson the suspects demanded cash and gold before tying up the couple with a rope and stuffing rags into their mouths so that they could not call for help, before ransacking the house.
“The gang fled in the couple’s vehicle with two firearms, two flat screen televisions, a laptop, cell phones, jewellery, a wallet with cash and bank cards, and all of the keys to the property. The man sustained bruising to his face but did not require any medical assistance at the scene,” said Jackson.
Hillcrest SAPS communications officer, Const Ndumiso Manqele, confirmed that a case was opened at the Hillcrest Police Station and no arrests have been made.
