According to Rosebank police spokesperson sergeant Bongani Mdletshe, the man walked into the station’s Community Service Centre on 28 January at 7am.
“He came through to report a case of hijacking. The officers tried to assist him, but they noticed that he was making contradictory statements,” said Mdletshe.
The complainant told police that he was allegedly hijacked two days earlier, on 26 January at about 8pm.
“He said that his employer’s car, a silver Volvo SUV, was hijacked at their place of residence in Forest Town.”
When Warrant Officer Mandla Maseko inquired further, he asked the man recall the events on the evening of the alleged hijacking.
“He said that before he got hijacked. He went to a garage in Killarney to buy mielie-meal and then to a Pick n Pay to buy meat,” said Maseko.
Maseko stated that the man was taken to both these locations to verify his story. The man was shown CCTV footage at the garage taken the evening the alleged incident occurred.
Neither the man or the vehicle he was driving could be spotted in the video. It was also discovered that the Pick n Pay was closed at the time the man alleged to have shopped there.
Mdletshe noted that the police could not verify aspects of the man’s story, and the man also kept changing his account of the incident.
Eventually after an interrogation the man confessed that he had been drinking heavily in Randburg and woke up the next morning with no memory of what happened.
“He also had no idea what happened to his employer’s car which was missing after he woke up. A case of theft was opened for the vehicle and the man was arrested and charged with perjury and defeating the ends of justice,” said Mdletshe.
Mdletshe explained that the suspect’s employer was overseas, and on 28 January requested to be picked up in the vehicle.
The man therefore attempted to cover up his extreme negligence by fabricating an elaborate hijacking story.
Police urged the public to look out for the vehicle with the number plate CA339339.
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