FARM ATTACK – Ladybrand – Farmer tortured

Media Release South African Police Service 2024/07/07

Office of the Provincial Commissioner Free State

FREE STATE – Ladybrand. – According to reports, the victim’s wife tried to make contact with her husband on the farm. She was out of town when the incident occurred. It happened on Saturday 6 July 2024 at around 17h00. She tried to contact her husband several times. She couldn’t get a hold of him. She called a friend to investigate.

At about 23:00, the police were notified and the rural safety coordinator activated local farmers.

Upon arrival at the farm, the elderly woman who works on the farm was found, but the farmer had already been taken by a family friend to a local doctor.

According to reports, three suspects with clams and gloves and armed with a firearm found the woman on the farmhouse, threatened her with a firearm and forced her into the home.

They found the farmer in the bathroom and drove him at gunpoint and demanded money. The suspects allegedly searched two safes but found nothing, not even money. They immediately took other valuables, including the farmer’s mobile phone, and left the scene with his Audi sedan vehicle with a Free State registration number plate.

The attackers wore clams

July 7, 2024 at approximately 4:20 a.m., the team from the Ladybrand Crime Prevention Unit spotted the stolen vehicle in Ladybrand and pursued the suspects. During the chase, the vehicle overturned on one of the streets in the village, and two suspects were arrested while the third fled the scene.

The two attackers, aged 21 and 28 respectively, are expected to appear in the Ladybrand Magistrate’s Court on Monday, 8 July 2024 on charges of house robbery.

source:FARM ATTACK – Ladybrand – Farmer tortured – Volkskrag News