Kempton Park SAPS is investigating a case of house robbery after an elderly man was attacked in a retirement village in Brentwood Park on New Year’s eve.
Frank Behen (70) told Benoni City Times he was sleeping when three armed men entered his unit in Country Life Retirement Village by breaking the burglar bars of his guest bathroom.
“When [the men] entered my room it was still dark and they flipped me over, so I was facing down,” said Behen.
The men bound his ankles with a shoelace and his wrists with a cable tie behind his back.
Behen said the first thing the suspects asked for was where the panic button was and ordered him to give them the combination to his safe.
“They stole R1 000 and £500, which is probably worth about R8 000,” he said.
They also took a cellphone, two laptops, a television and his GPS.
Behen believes the suspects cut the village’s electric fence in a way that did not trigger an alarm.
He said Country Life’s head office did reach out to him. A meeting is scheduled on January 24 to discuss the incident with all the residents.
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