Wife narrowly misses encounter with gunmen
A Scottburgh man’s wife narrowly missed being present at the scene of an armed robbery as two men who had followed the couple for five hours finally pounced on the husband in his garage on Monday afternoon in KwaZulu-Natal.
“Thank God my wife wasn’t with me when they finally pounced,” said the traumatised man, who did not want to be named for fear of reprisals.
The gunmen had apparently stalked him and his wife for hours, all the way from a shopping mall in Amanzimtoti, South Coast Herald reported.
He and his wife had visited the Galleria shopping mall earlier in the day to shop and exchange R3 000 for coins for their business.
“I just had this uneasy feeling, so we decided to put all the change in our grocery bags,” he said.
When they got back to Scottburgh, his wife went for a facial, and he had a beer at a nearby restaurant. She decided to walk home, and he drove back shortly afterwards.
He had just parked the car when he looked up to find two armed balaclava-clad pointing a gun at him.
“I didn’t look them in the eyes because I believe that is what you’re supposed to avoid in these situations,” he said.
A watch, chain, rings, cellphone and wallet were taken.
Meanwhile, a neighbour who witnessed the scene from his balcony phoned the police.
A Westville resident phoned the next day to report that the victim’s empty wallet and car had been found abandoned on Galway Street. The keys were still in the ignition.
– Caxton News Service
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