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A young Delft dad has been hospitalised after a police officer allegedly tried to chop his hands off with an axe after accusing him of stealing.

The traumatised father of the victim, Kelvin van Wyk, 34, says he watched in disbelief as his son came home on Sunday covered in blood that was streaming from his hacked wrists, face and back, and begging for help.Freddie and his wife, Naomi, 62, have reported the police officer living in their road to the management of Delft SAPS, demanding he be charged with attempted murder.

Freddie says Kelvin left home at 11am to work at the cop’s house, where he had been doing general construction work for about a week.

 

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I saw such savagery in Liberia/Sierra Leone. Even babies and young women's hands were chopped off. This action by a police officer is horrific and frightening where are we going - backwards, losing/lost our civility?

Must be South Africa 🤔

Cape Town to be precise

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