The 35-year-old man, who served a six-year sentence for armed robbery, tried to escape the justice system by hanging himself with a torn blanket, in the holding cells, at the Brakpan Police Station.
His attempt was unsuccessful.
The law-breaker’s latest run-in with police unfolded when he allegedly robbed a 55-year-old man of cash, on Thursday morning.
According to Capt Joep Joubert, spokesperson for the Brakpan Police Station commander, the complainant withdrew a large a sum of cash at a bank in the Mall@Carnival at about 11am.
“The man was driving back to work, when he noticed someone on the back of his bakkie,” said Joubert.
“The bakkie had empty drums on the back and the suspect was throwing them off.”
Joubert told the Herald that the driver immediately stopped and got out of the bakkie, to confront his unwanted passenger.
“The suspect, however, jumped off the back, climbed into the bakkie and drove off,” said Joubert.
But this was not the last the robber would see of his victim, as the man managed to hold on to the vehicle and climb onto the back.
“When the suspect stopped the bakkie along Derby Avenue, the man got back into the vehicle and the pair started wrestling,” said Joubert.
During the tussle, the robber grabbed the man’s bag containing the cash and fled the scene.
“He jumped over the walls of several homes in the vicinity, trying to escape,” said Joubert.
“When he thought no one was looking, he casually emerged, walking out of a property.”
He was apprehended by members of the public who had witnessed the incident, and handed over to police, who arrived shortly afterwards…
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