Murder victim’s wife unhappy with police
Widow says she battles to get feedback from investigating officer.
Alezia Vermeulen’s (29) voice quivers with heartache when she tells her story.
On the evening of 29 November she and her husband Quintin (33 at the time) were getting ready for the Sunday evening movie when their dogs started barking. As were their habit she went to the back window to check but instead of her husband going to the front window to check, he opened the front door.
“Babe!” her husband screamed as the suspects stormed into the house. One started hitting her husband over the head with a crowbar and as she ran for the bedroom to hide she saw for a fleeting moment her husband one more time as he fell to the floor.
She locked herself in the bedroom and screamed as the suspects tried to break down the door but without success.
Within minutes someone was at the window calling her and identifying themselves as the complex security and a neighbour from three doors down. They came into the house and broke down the door which badly damaged from the suspects trying to enter. It was then when Alezia saw her husband lying in a pool of blood in the hallway. Near him lay a knife whit which he tried to defend himself.
The suspects fled with a television, cell phone and handbag leaving a trail of blood behind.
Alezia’s husband was declared dead on the scene.
But her troubles did not end. For the past three months she said she has not been receiving any feedback on the status of the investigation and every time gets the same excuse – they are waiting for all the forensic test results to come back.
“I have to phone them all the time. When I phoned today I was shocked when the investigating officer told me he was on leave and do not know where the docket is,” said Alezia with hurt and anger.
“I just want justice for my husband. I am 29 and a widow. My husband saved my life that night. If it was not for him I would have been dead, but now I am alone.
“I want to warn the community. Do not think because you live in a complex you are safe. Or because you have neighbours. I screamed like a mad person and my next door neighbour did not hear me,” she concluded.
The Record has not been able to reach Honeydew Police Station’s spokesperson for comment.
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