Two teens, terrorising Glencoe residents with a series of burglaries, have finally been brought to book.
Residents who spoke to the Courier told of their disgust over a ‘never-ending cycle of burglaries, arrests and then to find the same two children out on the streets again breaking into homes’.
One resident, who lives in the vicinity of Sarel Cilliers High School, said the two boys, aged about 16 and 17, broke into a house across the road from her during the day.
On another occasion, her husband witnessed a group of men, carrying sticks, chasing the two boys in the street as they had just broken into another home.

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“The police did their job to investigate and arrest these boys but they were soon released and back on the streets in no time, breaking in,” she told the Courier.
The Courier has since learned that the two boys have again been arrested and this time the police have taken it upon themselves to ensure that both are detained in a place of safety, as per the Child Justice Act, so they can be tried and if found guilty placed in a juvenile correctional centre. The boys are said to be ‘street kids’ and do not attend school.