SEVEN men robbed a home on the luxury Dunblane Lifestyle Estates in Bredell in the early hours Thursday morning.
Dunblane home owners association director, André van Zyl said there was no breach of the estate’s security and that all home owners would be contacted to determine if they were safe. The robbers were all believed to be armed.
A woman living in the house, who does not want to be named, said she was watching TV at 2am Thursday morning, when three men, wearing balaclavas, entered her bedroom.
The men pulled her out of the bed and she awakened her husband, who was next to her.
“I woke him up and they pushed him to the ground and tied him up with shoe laces and cable ties,” she said.
The woman was then told to open the safe at gun point. The men retrieved two guns from the safe and threatened to shoot the woman’s husband.
“I begged them not to do it. I told them I would show them where to go and what they wanted but to just leave us alone.”
The woman said her four children, aged two, six, nine and 10 ,were in the house at the time of the incident. The suspects threatened to shoot the woman if her two-year-old daughter, who was in bed with her, moved.
The suspects locked the husband in the bathroom and her in the study. They were in the house from 2am to 4.30am.
The suspects apparently made food (peanut butter sandwiches) and drank before leaving the home.
Before leaving, they attempted to cut off the woman’s finger in order for them to exit at the security gate booms but she gave them the remote.
Cell phones, TV sets, laptops, clothing, jewellery, cash and a vehicle were taken.
The suspects failed to exit the complex in the getaway vehicle stolen from the house.
No one at the home was seriously injured.
