Efforts to address contact crimes in the Nyanga area resulted to the arrest of four suspects for alleged rape and house robbery.
One suspect, (32) a relative to the complainant was arrested on Monday, 11 June 2018, after he allegedly raped a 14 year old girl in Nyanga.
In a separate incident a 32 year old man was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly raping his girlfriend on 10 June 2018, in Samora Machel. Both suspects are appearing in the Wynberg Magistrate Court today facing charges of rape.
The other two suspects aged 20 were arrested for a house robbery they committed on Sunday evening in Bongolethu Street in Browns Farm. The two suspects and four other accomplices threatened the occupants of a house with a firearm and knives and demanded money. They fled with cash, clothes and a tool box and had threatened to come back to the house.
After an intensive investigation, the two suspects were apprehended. Police are searching for the remaining four.
The suspect are due to appear in Athlone Magistrate Court on Thursday (2018-06-14) on a house robbery charge.
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