Johannesburg - Three men accused of beating up a security guard at an upmarket estate in Krugersdorp claim that they were reacting to the guard’s prior assault of one of their wives.
“The wife got beaten up by the security guard and then they reacted,” lawyer Ian Small-Smith told The Star outside the court.
Michael Hayes, represented by Small-Smith, and his sons, Jason and Bjorn, are accused of assaulting Fidelity security guard Melusi Pungu at Featherbrooke Estate on February 17.
The three appeared in the Krugersdorp Magistrate’s Court on Friday, but the case was postponed to April 24.
Small-Smith asked the court for the postponement in order for the assault charge laid by Michael’s wife, Samantha, to be probed.
He had written to the Muldersdrift police station requesting that Pungu and another guard, Robert Ngobeni, be arrested and investigated, he said.
But there has been no reaction or response. “It seems immaterial to the SAPS that a woman had been assaulted by an armed man,” he wrote in his letter.
The Star