Pretoria
- Topless and with a gash to his head, the suspected kidnapper and rapist lay dead at the business premises of his victim's son.
He had been brutally assaulted by a mob in Soshanguve, six days after he allegedly kidnapped a 47-year-old woman in Hammanskraal and raped her before demanding money for her release.
The man allegedly kidnapped the woman, who cannot be named due to the nature of the crime, last Wednesday. Later that same day, he accepted a ransom of R4 000 from the woman’s son and then freed her.
Her son told the Pretoria News they had been in contact with the man via cellphone while negotiating the release of his mother. This made it easier to track down the suspect .
Together with family members, they trapped the man by phoning him and promising him a job. He agreed to meet them near the Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa Centre, commonly known as Stout school, in Soshanguve.
“We already had his cellphone number; we were calling him from a different number to the one we used last week. We found that the number we called belonged to his partner, who relayed the message to him.”
More at: http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/suspected-kidnapper-rapist-slain-by-mob-2057862
