Two gunmen have been arrested after a mother of three endured a horror ordeal after being abducted from outside her Southernwood home on Tuesday.
The traumatised woman, whose name has been withheld, says she thanks God for having escaped unharmed.
Her alleged abductors had earlier tied her up, before leaving her unharmed in a deserted park.
The woman was parking her car after returning to her St James Road home from a nearby school venue, where she is doing part-time studies, at 8pm.
The gunmen had apparently been waiting for her close to her parking bay in the complex and confronted her when she got out of her car.
“When I saw a man pointing a firearm at me I screamed. He told me not to scream but I screamed again,” she said.
The woman claims she was blindfolded and gagged with masking tape and her legs and hands were also bound.
The gunmen allegedly put her into their vehicle and drove away.
As the men continued driving, the woman said she began crying.
“The man said I should not cry because I am a good person and that they won't hurt me,” she said.
She said the vehicle veered off a tarred road on to a gravel stretch before stopping, and they forced her out of the car.
After allegedly obtaining some personal details from her, the men got into their car and sped away with the woman’s phone and car keys.
The woman said she managed to untie herself after realising she had been dropped off at James Pearce Park near the East London Golf Club.
She ran to the entrance of the Golf Club, where a security guard helped her and called the police.
Police rushed to the woman’s house in the meantime to discover her car had been stolen.
East London police spokeswoman Warrant Officer Hazel Mqala said the woman’s car was later recovered in St Pauls Road where two men were arrested.
The suspects, aged 21 and 25, are due to appear in the East London Magistrate’s Court this morning on charges related to kidnapping, armed robbery and theft of a motor vehicle. — zwangam@dispatch.co.za
Woman survives abduction ordeal
The traumatised woman, whose name has been withheld, says she thanks God for having escaped unharmed.
Her alleged abductors had earlier tied her up, before leaving her unharmed in a deserted park.
The woman was parking her car after returning to her St James Road home from a nearby school venue, where she is doing part-time studies, at 8pm.
The gunmen had apparently been waiting for her close to her parking bay in the complex and confronted her when she got out of her car.
“When I saw a man pointing a firearm at me I screamed. He told me not to scream but I screamed again,” she said.
The woman claims she was blindfolded and gagged with masking tape and her legs and hands were also bound.
The gunmen allegedly put her into their vehicle and drove away.
As the men continued driving, the woman said she began crying.
“The man said I should not cry because I am a good person and that they won't hurt me,” she said.
She said the vehicle veered off a tarred road on to a gravel stretch before stopping, and they forced her out of the car.
After allegedly obtaining some personal details from her, the men got into their car and sped away with the woman’s phone and car keys.
The woman said she managed to untie herself after realising she had been dropped off at James Pearce Park near the East London Golf Club.
She ran to the entrance of the Golf Club, where a security guard helped her and called the police.
Police rushed to the woman’s house in the meantime to discover her car had been stolen.
East London police spokeswoman Warrant Officer Hazel Mqala said the woman’s car was later recovered in St Pauls Road where two men were arrested.
The suspects, aged 21 and 25, are due to appear in the East London Magistrate’s Court this morning on charges related to kidnapping, armed robbery and theft of a motor vehicle. — zwangam@dispatch.co.za
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