Cape Town – The hartsore family say they watched in shock as their home in Fresia Street was cordoned off with crime scene tape.
“We were all sleeping and we didn’t know that he left his bungalow. But we heard my father screaming and ran out and found him lying there in front of the house,” she says.“We covered his body with a blanket to try and keep him warm, but when the ambulance got here, they said he was already dead.” “We didn’t know what was going on, but the community told us they came to call Riaan out of his bungalow and he went out.?’ Then they started beating him. The one suspect hit him in the head with a baksteen and he fell“We are so shocked because they accused him of robbing someone, but my brother wasn’t like that, he worked paving the roads here in Malmesbury. They could have talked to resolve the matter.
The duo will make their first appearance at the Malmesbury Magistrates’ Court today on murder charges.