On Monday morning July 13, 2015 me. Hendrika Bezuidenhout (82) was attacked in her home in Smith Street, Potchefstroom.
“If you open your mouth, we’ll kill you!”
This is what three suspects said to Bezuidenhout , also known as Aunt Hennie, after they broke into her home. Bezuidenhout just got up when three men attacked her in her home in Smith Street. They tied her and repeatedly beaten her.
She told the Herald how the men snatched her watch and her ring from her finger.
Bezuidenhout screamed to her daughter for help during the attack.
Her daughter, Bets Botha, found the three suspects in the room where they were assaulting her mother.
“My daughter screamed for them to leave, otherwise she would kill them,” said Bezuidenhout.
The suspects shoved Botha out of the way and fled.
“I struggled to sleep the night of the incident, but now I’m over most of the shock. I just hope something like that never happens to me again.”
Police were immediately called to the scene.
According to Warrant Officer Mpho Manyoba of the police, the incident happened at about 07:15.
Nobody has been arrested and a case of house robbery is being investigated.
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