The quick action of a mother and son from Centurion, Gauteng on Tuesday foiled the plans of three armed men who wanted to rob them.
Frances van Rensburg and her daughter, Marlese van der Spuy arrived shortly after lunch at their home in Hennopspark after they went shopping. “We arrived at the house, pulled the car into the yard and closed the electric security gate behind us,” Van Rensburg said to Marula Media.
Three men in a new golden coloured car stopped in front of the gate. Two men got out and asked Van der Spuy about an address in the area. After Van der Spuy helped them, they lifted the gate off its track, and opened it.
Van Rensburg’s 35-year-old son, Roelof Lubbe, was in the house, heard the noise and went to investigate. “Both men were outside the car, guns drawn. My son ran to one of the armed men and punch him in the face. The man fell next to the car” she said.
The other suspect pointed his gun at Lubbe. Van Rensburg meanwhile ran into the house and pushed their security company’s panic button.
“The combination of my son’s punch and the alarm made the men frightened. They jumped in the car and drove off. ”
The family was unharmed. “The Lord’s hand was over us that nothing went wrong and no one had been harmed. One robber will have a very sore cheek. ”
Police and staff of ADT arrived shortly after the incident at the scene and took the family’s statement.
Van Rensburg suspected they were followed from the shopping center as a similar incident occurred the previous week in the same neighborhood.
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