Date: Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:32 PM
Subject: Elderly couple murdered for nothing
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DISTRAUGHT: Marthie Potgieter is overcome by grief as she tells how
her parents were killed after being hijacked on the East Rand.
(Mary-Ann Palmer, Beeld)
Yvonne and Willem Ras with their grandchildren Carmen and Corli.
(Beeld, photo supplied)
02/07/2008 09:05 - (SA)
Gloria Edwards, Beeld
Johannesburg - An elderly cancer patient and his wife have been shot
on the N12 on the East Rand - without their attackers robbing them of
their vehicle or any of their possessions.
Willem Ras, 66, who also had Parkinson's disease, and his wife,
Yvonne, 64, were attacked near Eldorado Park on Saturday night.
Willem was first shot in his back and then shoved out of the moving
car. He died on the road.
Yvonne was shot in the neck and left for dead in the vehicle. She died
from her wound in Garden City Hospital in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
The couple were on their way back to their flat in Alberton at about
22:00 after having visited their only child, Mathie Potgieter, 37, and
their two grandchildren in Randfontein.
Police said the killers presumably pulled the couple off the road
somewhere and jumped into the car with them.
Was still breathing
The attackers then probably forced them to drive to the N12 highway in
Eldorado Park where they shot Willem in the back near the Boundary
Road bridge and threw him from the car.
Captain Phillemon Khorombi of Eldorado Park police said they found the
vehicle at 12:35 on Sunday.
"Mrs Ras was found with a bullet wound to the neck. She was still
breathing and was taken to hospital."
Mr Ras's body was found near the car.
"It doesn't look like anything was stolen."
Mathie Potgieter said she could not understand how her parents could
be killed for nothing.
Their jewellery, cash and other belongings were found in the vehicle
and given to her.
Bitter
"Even my father's cross and necklace of real gold that my mother gave
to him 25 years ago was still around his neck."
Potgieter only realised something was amiss on Sunday morning after
her grandmother, Corrie Wijnbreek, 95, let her know that her parents
had not arrived home.
Shortly after her mother's death on Tuesday, Mathie said she was
bitter towards the killers who had left her "an orphan". Her daughters
Corli, 10, and Carmen, seven, were traumatised.
Source:News24
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2350375,00.html
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DISTRAUGHT: Marthie Potgieter is overcome by grief as she tells how
her parents were killed after being hijacked on the East Rand.
(Mary-Ann Palmer, Beeld)
Yvonne and Willem Ras with their grandchildren Carmen and Corli.
(Beeld, photo supplied)
02/07/2008 09:05 - (SA)
Gloria Edwards, Beeld
Johannesburg - An elderly cancer patient and his wife have been shot
on the N12 on the East Rand - without their attackers robbing them of
their vehicle or any of their possessions.
Willem Ras, 66, who also had Parkinson's disease, and his wife,
Yvonne, 64, were attacked near Eldorado Park on Saturday night.
Willem was first shot in his back and then shoved out of the moving
car. He died on the road.
Yvonne was shot in the neck and left for dead in the vehicle. She died
from her wound in Garden City Hospital in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
The couple were on their way back to their flat in Alberton at about
22:00 after having visited their only child, Mathie Potgieter, 37, and
their two grandchildren in Randfontein.
Police said the killers presumably pulled the couple off the road
somewhere and jumped into the car with them.
Was still breathing
The attackers then probably forced them to drive to the N12 highway in
Eldorado Park where they shot Willem in the back near the Boundary
Road bridge and threw him from the car.
Captain Phillemon Khorombi of Eldorado Park police said they found the
vehicle at 12:35 on Sunday.
"Mrs Ras was found with a bullet wound to the neck. She was still
breathing and was taken to hospital."
Mr Ras's body was found near the car.
"It doesn't look like anything was stolen."
Mathie Potgieter said she could not understand how her parents could
be killed for nothing.
Their jewellery, cash and other belongings were found in the vehicle
and given to her.
Bitter
"Even my father's cross and necklace of real gold that my mother gave
to him 25 years ago was still around his neck."
Potgieter only realised something was amiss on Sunday morning after
her grandmother, Corrie Wijnbreek, 95, let her know that her parents
had not arrived home.
Shortly after her mother's death on Tuesday, Mathie said she was
bitter towards the killers who had left her "an orphan". Her daughters
Corli, 10, and Carmen, seven, were traumatised.
Source:News24
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2350375,00.html
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