Man assaulted by former employer

A MAN is in a critical condition in hospital after his former employer assaulted him for eight hours in Columbine Place on Thursday 29 August.

According to Greenwood Park SAPS spokesman, Lt Elvis Naidoo, the man was walking along Columbine Place in search of a job. On his way home he noticed his former employer’s vehicle in the same road.

The driver of the car stopped and three men jumped out of the car and pulled the man into the car.

It is believed the three men drove him to his previous workplace, then took him to a storeroom and assaulted him with an axe, hammer, chairs, a bush knife and suffocated him with a plastic bag.

The man told police his former employer accused him of stealing money from the business, but added when he left the company, his former employer begged him to return.

Another man, who works for the same company, noticed the three men were missing and went looking for them.

It is believed he found them in the storeroom, where they were assaulting the former employee.

He told the men they should have opened a case of theft at the police station if the former employee had stolen from the company, but the attackers started fighting with the man.

According to the police, the man then took the former employee to a nearby hospital, where he is in a critical, but stable condition.

Police said the assaulted man lost control of his legs and hands and sustained serious head injuries.

A case of attempted murder was opened at Greenwood Park Police Station and the former employer was arrested on Friday 30 August.