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Woman survives shot to the head by robbers
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| November 03 2009 at 07:28AM |
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Submit your comment By Shaun Smillie Two months later Koen is still recovering The robbery, captured on closed-circuit television, took less than a minute from the time Koen drove into the car park to when the three robbers climbed back into their white VW Golf.Continues Below ↓ Miraculously, Koen, 60, who was left lying in the driveway, was alive after being shot three times in the leg, arm and head. Two months later Koen is still recovering, but no one has been arrested for the robbery that took place in Silverton, Tshwane. It is for this reason that her husband Hannes opted to hire a private investigator. Now Daryl Els, of Christian Botha Investigations, believes he is on the trail of a gang of robbers who operate from Tembisa and specialise in what police refer to as associated robberies. This involves robbing victims after they leave a bank having withdrawn a large amount of cash. The gang has, over several months, targeted Pretoria's eastern suburbs. Els wants to talk to an 18-year-old woman called Nombuso Nkosi who he believes could have information about the robbery. She lives in Tembisa. She hasn't seen the CCTV footage of the robbery In August, Koen, on her way to work, was followed from a Silverton branch of Absa Bank after she had withdrawn R50 000. Afterwards she drove to her family business, Trio Trade. As she parked her car, she didn't notice the white Golf pull up outside the gate. One of the men knocked out the security guard. "As I was getting out of the car, the two were on me. They didn't talk, they just shot," Koen recalled. One of the robbers fired twice, hitting Koen in the right leg and left arm. The man tried to grab her handbag, but Koen fought back. Then his accomplice came up behind her, put his arm around her neck and shot her. Just metres away, in his office, Hannes saw what was happening. He saw the gun pushed against her head, and a puff of smoke as the bullet left the barrel. "At that moment I thought she was dead," he said. But Koen was conscious. "I was fine. I was screaming 'please help'. There was blood streaming from me," she said. Seconds later, her husband rushed her to hospital. What can be seen in the CCTV footage is another vehicle, believed to be a white Toyota Venture, following the Golf. "The Venture probably had the spotter, who identified the target," said Els. The usual modus operandi is that the spotter watches out for a target in the bank, then leaves the bank and passes on the information to the robbers, who commit the crime. Police say associated robberies are on the increase, as criminals are finding bank customers softer targets than cash-in-transit vans. They are also more violent. Police believe the gang that tried to kill Koen is probably the same one operating from Tembisa responsible for a spate of robberies. The gang is believed to have more than 20 members. Koen will go into surgery on November 13. She hopes to regain full use of her wrist. She hasn't seen the CCTV footage of the robbery - and doesn't know if she wants to. Anyone with information on Nombuso Nkosi can call Daryl Els at 082 877 2168 or Frans Molokome at 082 682 0161.
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Showing page 1 of 4 comment pages, 37 total comments
13 Weeks ago Anonymous wrote :
THE COPS ARE PATHETIC! - your taxpaying employer
13 Weeks ago Jakes wrote :
Are these people INSANE? Draw R50,000 in cash, in the car and off we go back to the office. Wow, I get robbed. Amazing.....Has NOBODY heard of electronic banking? As far as I'm concerned, if you get shot for your R50k in your handbag, you only have yourself to blame.
14 Weeks ago Chillipeppa wrote :
Its such an indictment on our pathetic SAPS that in months they have not made any headway in this crime and a private investigator has made huge headway within days.
14 Weeks ago Dean wrote :
all the whites must leave....this is no place for a sensitive western mindset. unless you condemn yourself to being "african" you must accept the realisties of this beastly place where only laws of separation can protect the innocent from the savages.
14 Weeks ago deon wrote :
They must stick to the shoot to kill policy.... amazing how your life can be ended in less than 1 minute bacause some animal want your money....
14 Weeks ago Anonymous wrote :
Bring back the old apartheid police.They would show these bastards how not to @*&^&^% around!!!!
14 Weeks ago James wrote :
Criminals are worse than animals in SA they should have their brains blown out
14 Weeks ago Anonymous wrote :
The reason there is no video, is that it has been censored by the goverment NIA who are SO PARANOID they are watching everything that gets published on IOL so very very closely(identical/similar to the "good old" APARTHEID regime). What/who they should ACTUALLY be watching is the corrupt police who by there very nature allow these types of things to take place. If all police in RSA were hard-working above board cops we would not have this huge crime problem. How many times a day do you see police breaking the laws of our land....speeding, no seat belts ect ect. To the politicians I say get off your butts and get rid of the rotten apples in your movements and in the national police force or suffer(including your children and families) the short, medium and long term consequances of your gross inactivity/negligence.
14 Weeks ago A concerned American who loves people of the world wrote :
Whats happened to the men of SA I dont believe poverty makes people do these things. If you have no money you need to focus on how to earn it or work credit out until your on your feet. The complete lack of empathy towards others makes the answer to the question of what to do about it easy. The police need to be instructed to destroy the people commiting these crimes. Simply put just kill them as soon as possible. They dont need a trial that takes time and money they wont get a conscience all of a sudden and rehabilitation wont work so just kill them.
14 Weeks ago Starlight wrote :
Congrats Saartjie Koen, you are a lucky lady indeed. Our prayers are with you until full recovery. But this 'SA crime' is going to have to be looked at or else SA is not going to grow as a powerful country, instead the economy is gonna go down hill until our ZAR is as worse as the ZIM dollar. Right now I can only say big-ups to the pple who have succeeded in excaping this country we call home.
PS. Fraudulent transactions occured on my Bank account via internet banking, & they took all the money & left me with R13.63. Nothing is safe!
PS. Fraudulent transactions occured on my Bank account via internet banking, & they took all the money & left me with R13.63. Nothing is safe!
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