Burglars need only three minutes
The three burglars left a swing in their victims' front yard.
CCTV footage recorded by a neighbour across the street caught burglars breaking into a house in Kenmare in a matter of three minutes. It happened on 11 March at 12.45pm.
Warren Spiller received a phone call from his hysterical wife that afternoon, asking him if he knew about the mysterious swing in their front yard.
Spiller denied knowing anything about it and when he arrived at his house, he was shocked to discover their property had been broken into earlier that day.
His Yamaha YZ250 motorcycle, a hi-pressure cleaner, a hi-fi system and tools were stolen.
“Every time I go back into the garage I find something else being missing.”
Footage of suspects robbing a Kenmare house:
The footage shows a white bakkie driving up and down their street in Kenmare, scouting for an easy target.
After spending several minutes in the street the suspects approach the house to check if the residents are home.
Once the coast is clear the thieves – two men and a woman – disconnect the electrical gate motor and quickly reverse into the property.
Spiller later located the owner of the mysterious swing who lives higher up in the street.
The neighbour told Spiller a man believed to be in his 40s, a woman in her 30s, along with a young man in his 20s approached him and asked for the swing, which he had no use for any longer.
The suspects are still at large and a case of housebreaking had been opened at the Krugersdorp Police Station.
