A 29-year-old mother of a nine-year-old child, who was kidnapped in Newlands Johannesburg on September 6, was kept inside a car-trunk for four days, and given only bread and water.
The SA police found the mother on Saturday-morning after the Bosmont Community Policing Forum (BCP) found her car.
The two men inside that car claimed they were ‘new purchasers’ and pointed out the place where she was located.
Strangely, the police did not arrest the ‘new purchasers’: Warrant Officer Karen Jacobs said
‘The 29-year-old will speak to a police-expert soon so that we can compile ID-kits.”
The mother of the victim said her daughter has suffered severe emotional trauma and they are ‘happy to have her back home’.
When she was hijacked and kidnapped in her car, she was pushed into her car-trunk and held for four days by two males.
She said that she was ‘threatened throughout that time by the gunmen who said they were ‘going to take her out’. She was repeatedly beaten.
She was given only dry bread.
On Sunday, she managed to send emergency-SMS messages from her car to her friend who only managed to contact the police the next day, on Monday.
The victim het gesê die kapers het gesê hulle gaan haar “uithaal” en het aanhoudend aan haar vertel wat die rewolwer se koeël aan haar gaan doen.
She explains what happened: “My car broke down on Saturday-evening September 6 and I had it fixed by a man in Claremont and called my employer, texting that I was on my way.
“I was in touch with a friend and she called me all day to hear where I was.
“I drove to my job and when I was sitting still at a stop-street, two men asked for a ride, but I turned them down.
“One man ripped open the door, pulled me by my arm from the car and pushed me into the rear-seat.
“The gunmen climbed inside telling me to shut up or they would shoot me dead.”
She also said that it was extraordinary but these two men knew exactly where she’d been throughout that day and demanded to know the whereabouts of her friend.
“I was forced to lie down on the back seat, with one man pointing a rifle at me while we were driving around in abandoned sites. I had to lie down so that no-one could see me,” she said.
“The following day I was tossed into the car-trunk. That’s when I contacted my friend with SMS text messages pleading for her to help me.”
She heard the two men trying to sell her car to someone else on Thursday-night.
She was inside the trunk that entire time.
The ‘new purchaser’ allegedly offloaded her at the home of an unknown woman, where the police found her car through the determined efforts of the BCP.
