A 64 year old woman was attacked on a farm in Kalkfontein in Groblersdal on Tuesday night 6 February 2018, after the attackers apparently received information about the farm from the attackers who attacked the same woman in 2012.
Kobus Liebenberg, Wilma Liebenberg’s husband, told Maroela Media that his wife was alone in the farmhouse at the time of the incident as he worked in the town during the week. According to him, she went to bed at about 23:30 and was asleep when the fox terrier dogs who were sleeping in her room began to bark hysterically. “They jumped on top of her and made a scene.
“She got up and saw the passage light on the top floor was on. She took the revolver and shot two shots out the bedroom window. Then she noticed the light went off and heard someone walking down the stairs. They then started shaking at the room door and she then fired a shots through the door, “Liebenberg said.
According to him, there is a three meter high wall around the house, the attackers then dragged their injured accomplice out of the house and helped him over the wall. “They dragged him for about 15 meters and left him there.” It is suspected that there were four attackers.
He says that there is no signal on the farm and that you have to walk about 100m to get signal and assistance. Wilma waited until the next morning when the workers arrived at the farm before she could raise the alarm.
Kobus explained when the police’s dog unit arrived at the scene on Wednesday afternoon, they found the attacker alive in the field. He was injured in the chest just below the shoulder. “I asked him what he was doing on the farm and he told both me and the police that he got information about the house and the safe from the previous attackers”
The attacker died later on the farm.
According to Kobus, the man and his brother who attacked his wife in 2012 were never arrested. They apparently often phoned the couple for about six months after the attack and told them they would come back and kill them.
“Every time we called the police, on their insistence and informed them about this, nothing was done. That attack gave my wife diabetes, and she is still receiving cancer treatment, she is sick. During the first attack they wanted to cut off her legs with a chain saw and burn her with the iron, however the wall plug did not work at that time. She is very traumatized and I’m bitter. ”
The deceased is not yet known to the police at this stage.
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