The Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Liziwe Ntshinga has welcomed the speedy arrests of three family members allegedly involved in the brutal murder of a 70 year old man in Port Elizabeth.
It is alleged that on Tuesday evening, 17 July 2018, Petrus Scholtz left home to attend to a customer in Kabega Park. He did electrical repairs in his own time. On Thursday morning, 19 July 2019 his body was found in bushes along a gravel Road between Willow and Yellowood Roads in Fairview Walmer.
According to police information, at about 08:00 on Wednesday, a person walking to work stumbled upon Scholtz’s body lying in bushes alongside the road. Both his hands and feet were bound with a nylon cord and his head covered and severely beaten.
Police have opened a murder case.
Since the discovery, police have been following up on several leads and on Friday evening, 20 July 2018, at about 18:30 a team led by Mount Road Cluster Detective Commander, Colonel Paul Orange, Walmer detectives and Hawks in Port Elizabeth arrested a mother (55), daughter (35) and son (31) at a house in Woltemade Street In Kabega Park. Circumstances and motive for Scholtz’s murder is yet to be established.
Police recovered most of Scholtz’s possessions including his tools and the vehicle, a blue Isuzu double Cab. The vehicle was allegedly sold to a person in North End and was seized this morning.
The suspects will appear in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court on Monday, 23 July 2018.
The Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Ntshinga has applauded the swift following up on all the information and encouraged the public to continue to report any suspicious behaviour in their neighbourhoods.
‘We cannot allow criminals to commit crime on innocent law abiding citizens. We need to remove them from society so that people can live without any fear of being attacked. Our investigating team has been working around the clock and have followed up on all information in their endeavours to arrest the suspects. Their investigation and hard work has yielded results,’ added Lieutenant General Ntshinga.
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