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Afrikaans teen breaks neck escaping kidnapper
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Farmer, Lazanne, 14, dies while escaping from blue-eyed, wigged kidnapper/rapist –
2010-09-06 Pretoria – Fourteen-year-old Pretoria girl Lazanne Farmer broke her neck and died when she jumped out of the moving bakkie of a ‘blue-eyed, wigged’ gunman who had kidnapped her and her 16-year-old friend.The kidnapper drove on, raped the older girl, shredded her clothes and dumped her at the roadside. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Girl-breaks-neck-fleeing-kidnapper-20100906
Lazanne Farmer, left, was a pupil at Elandspoort High School in Pretoria West.
Her friend is deeply traumatised after the nightmare kidnapping and rape and devastated about the death of her friend.
She said: 'The outside might heal, but I’ll always carry it with me on the inside,” the 16-year-old, who may not be identified, said on Monday.“When he stopped I thought he was going to ask for directions, but when he pointed the gun at us I knew I was in trouble.” The two girls were walking on Sunday at about 10:00 from another friend’s house in Elandspoort to the 16-year-old girl’s house in Danville. In Armstrong Road in Elandspoort a man stopped next to them in a Corsa or Bantam bakkie. “He pointed his firearm at them and said they must get in if they want to live,” the 16-year-old’s mother said.The man, aged 27 or 28 with blue eyes, wrinkles around the eyes and wearing a wig, held the door open on the driver’s side and Lazanne climbed in first.
He blindfolded them and drove in the direction of Kwaggasrand. “Lazanne took off her blindfold in Middle Crescent. She saw two women walking down the street, banged against the window and screamed for help. Then she jumped out,” the 16-year-old said.
The older girl, who also took off her blindfold at that point, also tried to jump out – but the kidnapper pulled her back inside, locked the doors and blindfolded her again.
He left Lazanne where she had fallen and drove on with the 16-year-old. At some stage he stopped near the thick brush next to the Hennops River Road (R511).
The “man” took off her blindfold, gave her something to drink, took her clothes off and raped her. Then he cut her s
hirt into two pieces, gave her the one half to put on and blindfolded her with the other.
He forced her into the vehicle again, drove for a while and stopped. Then he dropped her off and drove away. The girl ran to a garage nearby where a motorist noticed her at about 14:00 and took her home.
The girl’s mother was furious when she saw her. “I felt if I could get my hands on that man I would do some bad things to him,” said her mother.
“What more can a mother do to protect her children? Why does he take children?” Henriette Farmer, 29, Lazanne’s sister, said on Monday night the family is “taking it one step at a time”.
“I hope they catch the swine so he can’t take any other people’s children away.” The girls’ classmates are devastated, writes Beeld newspaper, and have been placing flowers at the scene where Lazanne Farmer died.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Girl-breaks-neck-fleeing-kidnapper-20100906
Organised crime syndicates put Pretoria suburbs under siege
7 September 2010 – Pretoria News: Pretoria's south-west suburbs are under siege following a spate of house robberies and burglaries which have left residents living in fear.The crime wave of armed robberies, assaults and burglaries, has left residents demanding action from police who they claim are not interested in their safety.
Police sources and security company ADT have confirmed an increase in the number of attacks on households across the area."These guys are operating with impunity and are attacking homes everywhere. We believe there are a number of syndicates targeting these areas with several of them splitting up and attacking different areas at the same time," said a detective.These syndicates were using various vehicles to commit their crimes and specifically targeting cash and luxury electrical appliances, he said.
The policeman's concerns have been backed up by ADT. The security company confirmed an increase in burglaries and house robberies at its clients' homes in Valhalla and Wierda Park. ADT spokeswoman Lizel Swart said they had not noticed any specific pattern but there was a clear increase, especially in the past three months. "These attacks are happening throughout the day at different times, with a definite increase in the Wierda Park area," she said. The soaring crime has residents living in fear of their lives, they say. For Jameel Bhana the fear is very real. His wife Soomaya and their domestic narrowly escaped injury when their house was ransacked on August 18 by four men driving a metallic blue Toyota Conquest.The two were forced to hide and lock themselves in an outside cottage when the gang forced their way into their home. "I was cooking when I heard footsteps followed by an aggressive knock on the front door. I became suspicious and told the domestic that I would not open the door." What followed was a terrifying ordeal. The two women watched the men using a crowbar to try to break open a security door before they smashed open a window. "We just heard glass break. Before we knew it they were in the kitchen. I quickly called my neighbour and begged her for help. I told her to go outside and scream at them."Despite being discovered and the neighbour yelling that the police were on their way the suspects continued looting the house before they fled."Jameel Bhana said through his enquiries he had discovered several other houses had been burgled by the same men. "I spoke to a domestic across the road from the house that was burgled in Freya Road. She described the same vehicle and people who had come into their home." Bhana said that home owner had told him that she thought the men were contractors but when she heard glass breaking, she knew something was wrong."She later saw the four suspects carrying items from the house and placing them in the blue Toyota Conquest and fleeing the scene," he said.
For Sydney Cowley discovering his Freya Road house ransacked and his electrical household appliances missing was a nightmare. It appears, police said, that his house was attacked shortly after the four-man gang had fleeced Bhana's home."My neighbour saw a car in the driveway and heard some banging in the house. She thought it was my father who often comes round. But when she saw three men running out of the house with electrical goods she activated her panic button," said Cowley.The burglars knew what they were doing, taking the right power supply cables for the computer and laptops and picking the correct remote for the Play Station 3."The community is fed-up. These people come into our homes in broad daylight," said Cowley.
SAPS blames residents: ‘they should keep their windows and doors locked…”
- Bhana said he was furious. A policeman who came to his house for follow up investigations the next day, told him that there were no leads in the case and his docket had been "filed". I told him about the other burglaries and gave him a description of the car, but he said the docket would be filed until we could update him with new leads. Why should we update him? Surely he should follow up the information we have given him?"
- Wierdabrug police station spokeswoman Captain Agnes Huma said they were aware of the crime increases and had put a plan in place to target criminals.
"We cannot divulge that plan. We have had a number of successes, which we can also not reveal. We are appealing to the community to assist us in combating burglaries and house robberies by ensuring their doors and windows are locked, not leaving valuables in cars parked outside their houses and burning the boxes of electrical appliances instead of throwing them in dustbins. We want residents to do this because if criminals see appliance boxes they know you have just bought new goods, which they will try to steal."
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Anyone with information on burglaries or house robberies in the city's south-western suburbs can contact Wierdabrug police station commissioner Colonel Lucas Ramangwa at 082 7785 650 or Crime Stop on 08600 10111.This article was originally published on page 3 of The Pretoria News on September 07, 2010 http://www.capetimes.co.za/?fSectionId=&fArticleId=vn20100907062054147C745299&fFeed=sanews
Afrikaans teen breaks neck escaping kidnapper
Farmer, Lazanne, 14, dies escaping blue-eyed, wigged kidnapper/rapist
2010-09-06 Pretoria – Fourteen-year-old Pretoria girl Lazanne Farmer broke her neck and died when she jumped out of the moving bakkie of a ‘blue-eyed, wigged’ gunman who had kidnapped her and her 16-year-old friend.The kidnapper drove on, raped the older girl, shredded her clothes and dumped her at the roadside. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Girl-breaks-neck-fleeing-kidnapper-20100906
Lazanne Farmer, left, was a pupil at Elandspoort High School in Pretoria West.
Her friend is deeply traumatised after the nightmare kidnapping and rape and devastated about the death of her friend.
She said: 'The outside might heal, but I’ll always carry it with me on the inside,” the 16-year-old, who may not be identified, said on Monday.“When he stopped I thought he was going to ask for directions, but when he pointed the gun at us I knew I was in trouble.” The two girls were walking on Sunday at about 10:00 from another friend’s house in Elandspoort to the 16-year-old girl’s house in Danville. In Armstrong Road in Elandspoort a man stopped next to them in a Corsa or Bantam bakkie. “He pointed his firearm at them and said they must get in if they want to live,” the 16-year-old’s mother said.The man, aged 27 or 28 with blue eyes, wrinkles around the eyes and wearing a wig, held the door open on the driver’s side and Lazanne climbed in first.
He blindfolded them and drove in the direction of Kwaggasrand. “Lazanne took off her blindfold in Middle Crescent. She saw two women walking down the street, banged against the window and screamed for help. Then she jumped out,” the 16-year-old said.
The older girl, who also took off her blindfold at that point, also tried to jump out – but the kidnapper pulled her back inside, locked the doors and blindfolded her again.
He left Lazanne where she had fallen and drove on with the 16-year-old. At some stage he stopped near the thick brush next to the Hennops River Road (R511).
The man took off her blindfold, gave her something to drink, took her clothes off and raped her. Then he cut her shirt into two pieces, gave her the one half to put on and blindfolded her with the other.
He forced her into the vehicle again, drove for a while and stopped. Then he dropped her off and drove away. The girl ran to a garage nearby where a motorist noticed her at about 14:00 and took her home.The girl’s mother was furious when she saw her. “I felt if I could get my hands on that man I would do some bad things to him,” said her mother.“What more can a mother do to protect her children? Why does he take children?” Henriette Farmer, 29, Lazanne’s sister, said on Monday night the family is “taking it one step at a time”.“I hope they catch the swine so he can’t take any other people’s children away.” The girls’ classmates are devastated, writes Beeld newspaper, and are placing flowers at the scene where Lazanne Farmer died.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Girl-breaks-neck-fleeing-kidnapper-20100906
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