Two suspects were recently arrested by Parkview Police Station’s Sergeant Peter Mpofu.
This after he noticed a woman waving her hands and crying on the corner of Jan Smuts Avenue and St Andrews Road.
“He then stopped and asked the woman what was wrong. She informed him that she had just been robbed and assaulted by two men,” explained Sergeant Iris Phoko of Parkview Police Station.
According to Phoko, the woman was assaulted while she was walking along Jan Smuts Avenue when the suspects approached her and searched her, and in the process touched her breasts and private parts. Her cellphone, which was tucked between her breasts, was removed by one of the suspects, and both of them made a run for it towards the highway.
“Upon hearing the turn of events from the woman, Mpofu told her to get into the police car and drove towards the highway, where she identified the suspects. They were, however, running on the side of oncoming traffic,” said Phoko.
Mpofu stopped the police vehicle and ran across to the other side of the highway and started to chase the two suspects on foot. They were apprehended by him and charged with assault and common robbery at Parkview Police Station.
The investigating officer, Sergeant Shadrack Milondzo then saw the case through and found that one of the accused had previous convictions for possession of stolen property and for housebreaking.
The accused with previous convictions was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment while the second accused got a one-year sentence at the Hillbrow Magistrates’ Court earlier this month.
