Farm attack, rape, torture and violent assault, man (86) has died

Maroela Media

Piet Els (86) who was viciously attacked along with his companion on his farm outside Kimberly in the Northern Cape, has died as a result of his injuries.

Els and Rikkie Alsemgeest (68), both respected business people in the Kimmberly community were attacked on the night of 23 January 2018. The farm is situated about 10km outside of Kimberly where four attackers brutally assaulted and tortured the couple for hours. Burning them with an iron, tying their hands and feet and beating them. Rikkie was sexually assaulted and raped during the ordeal.

The attackers who gained access to the safe fled with jewelry, a hunting rifle and other valuable items. They fled the scene in Els’s white mercedes benz, which was later found abandoned.

Els died on Thursday morning 17 May 2018 after being in hospital since the gruesome attack.

Captain Sergio Kock, a police spokesperson told Maroela Media that the three suspects arrested for the attack were denied bail in the Kimberly magistrates court last month.

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